Along with y Mystic BBS, I was thinking about setting up a gopher server. Partly becuse I like a challenge, but also as a place to store and offer for download a LOT of music from my old recording studio.
I am trying to install Bucktooth on a Linux machne, but it's been a LONG time since I have messed with Linux and Perl so I think I have it set up but I don't even know if it is running or not. Have any of you had experience with gopher servers? (I think we need more of them, by the way).
Alonzo wrote to All <=-
Along with y Mystic BBS, I was thinking about setting up a gopher
server. Partly becuse I like a challenge, but also as a place to store
and offer for download a LOT of music from my old recording studio.
Imagine being able to offer access to FTN networks, email, IRC/MRC and web/gopher space for users as well. It'd be interesting to add that level of community to BBSing.
I am trying to install Bucktooth on a Linux machne, but it's been a LONG t since I have messed with Linux and Perl so I think I have it set up but I don't
even know if it is running or not. Have any of you had experience with gop servers? (I think we need more of them, by the way).
I have also installed bucktooth on my bbs server (RPi3B+) and works
fine. It's a bit tricky to install and had to search for some stuff but
i finally made it.
Alonzo wrote to All <=-
Along with y Mystic BBS, I was thinking about setting up a gopher server. Partly becuse I like a challenge, but also as a place to store and offer for download a LOT of music from my old recording studio.
Synchronet offers a Gopher server, but it only serves system content.
What I'd really like to find is a way to make user web/gopher spaces
using Synchronet or Mystic. Not sure how to handle getting files to the
web root and managing the URL redirects, though.
your own static/custom content. User content is a bit of a sticky
issue due to security and liability concerns, but of course its all
doable if you're determined to do it. If you do add user-enabled
content, I'd just stick with gopher and not do that for http/https
however.
your own static/custom content. User content is a bit of a sticky
issue due to security and liability concerns, but of course its all doable if you're determined to do it. If you do add user-enabled
content, I'd just stick with gopher and not do that for http/https however.
How would user content be any different from having message bases
available?
I have gopher server built into talisman, and it allows users to keep a
blog (or phlog or glog or whatever you call it) It's just text, which is
the same as message bases.
I'm guessing user content in synchronet means files / images as well?
Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Take a look at exec/gopherservice.js. It wouldn't take much to add your own static/custom content.
apam wrote to Digital Man <=-
How would user content be any different from having message bases available?
I have gopher server built into talisman, and it allows users to keep a blog (or phlog or glog or whatever you call it) It's just text, which
is the same as message bases.
Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Take a look at exec/gopherservice.js. It wouldn't take much to add your own static/custom content.
I'll take a look. At the very least I'd like to have some gopherspace
for the BBS that's not BBS-generated.
I was thinking about being able to offer users their own gopherspace,
for content *they* would upload.
Cool! How do the users upload the content, and how is the gopherspace referenced?
apam wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
they don't upload, they use the message editor to enter content for
their blog, then publish the article when they're ready. the content is displayed in a predefined way, and blogs are accessed via the user
page.
the gopher root is static and managed by the filesystem, but the user content is dynamic.
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