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README.md

gmid

gmid is a full-featured Gemini server written with security in mind. It can serve static files, has optional FastCGI and proxying support, and a rich configuration syntax.

A few helper programs are shipped as part of gmid:

  • gg is a simple command-line Gemini client.

  • gemexp is a stripped-down config-less version of gmid to quickly serve a directory from the command line.

  • titan is a command-line titan client.

Internationalisation (IRIs, UNICODE, punycode, all that stuff)

Even thought the current Gemini specification doesn't mention anything in this regard, I do think these are important things and so I tried to implement them in the most user-friendly way I could think of.

For starters, gmid has full support for IRI (RFC3987 — Internationalized Resource Identifiers). IRIs are a superset of URIs, so there aren't incompatibilities with URI-only clients.

There is full support also for punycode. In theory, the user doesn't even need to know that punycode is a thing. The hostname in the configuration file can (and must be) in the decoded form (e.g. naïve and not xn--nave-6pa), gmid will do the rest.

The only missing piece is UNICODE normalisation of the IRI path: gmid doesn't do that (yet).

Configuration

gmid has a rich configuration file, heavily inspired by OpenBSD' httpd(8), with every detail carefully documented in the manpage. Here's a minimal example of a config file:

server "example.com" {
	listen on * port 1965
	cert "/path/to/cert.pem"
	key  "/path/to/key.pem"
	root "/var/gemini/example.com"
}

and a slightly more complex one

cert_root = "/path/to/keys"

server "example.com" {
	listen on * port 1965

	alias "foobar.com"

	cert $cert_root "/example.com.crt"
	key  $cert_root "/example.com.pem"
	root "/var/gemini/example.com"

	# lang for text/gemini files
	lang "en"

	# only for locations that matches /files/*
	location "/files/*" {
		# generate directory listings
		auto index on
	}

	location "/repo/*" {
		# change the index file name
		index "README.gmi"
		lang "it"
	}
}

Building

gmid depends on libevent2, LibreSSL or OpenSSL, and yacc or GNU bison.

The build is as simple as

$ ./configure
$ make

If the configure scripts fails to pick up something, please open an issue or notify me via email.

To install execute:

# make install

Please keep in mind that the master branch, from time to time, may be accidentally broken on some platforms. gmid is developed primarily on OpenBSD/amd64 and commits on the master branch don't get always tested in other OSes. Before tagging a release however, a comprehensive testing on various platform is done to ensure that everything is working as intended.

Testing

Execute

$ make regress

to start the suite. Keep in mind that the regression tests needs to create a few file inside the regress directory and bind the 10965 port.

Contributing

Any form of contribution is welcome, not only patches or bug reports. If you have a sample configuration for some specific use-case, a script or anything that could be useful to others, consider adding it to the contrib directory.

Architecture/Security considerations

The internal architecture was revisited for the 2.0 release. For earlier releases, please refer to previous revision of this file.

gmid has a privsep design, where the operations done by the daemon are splitted into multiple processes:

  • main: the main process is the only one that keeps the original privileges. It opens the TLS certificates on the behalf of the server and crypto processes, reloads the configuration upon SIGHUP and re-opens the log files upon SIGUSR1.

  • logger: handles the logging with syslog and/or local files.

  • server: listens for connections and serves the request. It also speaks FastCGI and do the proxying.

  • crypto: holds the TLS private keys to avoid a compromised server process to disclose them.