.\" Copyright (c) 2021 Omar Polo .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .Dd $Mdocdate: January 25 2021$ .Dt GMIND 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm gmid .Nd dead simple zero configuration gemini server .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Bk -words .Op Fl fn .Op Fl c Ar config | .Op Fl 6hv .Op Fl d Pa certs-dir .Op Fl H Ar hostname .Op Fl p Ar port .Op Fl x Pa cgi .Op Pa dir .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a simple and minimal gemini server that can serve static files and execute CGI scripts. It can run without a configuration file with a limited set of features available. If a configuration file is given, no other flags shall be given, except for .Fl f and .Fl n . .Pp .Nm fully supports IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers, see RFC3987). .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width 14m .It Fl c Pa config Specify the configuration file. .It Fl f Stays and logs on the foreground. .It Fl n Check that the configuration is valid, but don't start the server. .El .Pp If no configuration file is given, .Nm will look for the following options .Bl -tag -width 14m .It Fl 6 Enable IPv6. .It Fl d Pa certs-path Directory where certificates for the config-less mode are stored. By default is .Pa $XDG_DATA_HOME/gmid , i.e. .Pa ~/.local/share/gmid . .It Fl H Ar hostname The hostname, by default .Ar localhost . Certificates for the given .Ar hostname are searched inside the .Pa certs-dir directory given with the .Fl d option. The have the form .Pa hostname.cert.pem and .Pa hostname.key.pem . If a certificate and key doesn't exists for a given hostname they would be automatically generated. .It Fl h Print the usage and exit. .It Fl p Ar port The port to listen on, by default 1965. .It Fl v Increase the verbosity of the logs. .It Fl x Pa path Enable execution of CGI scripts. See the description of the .Ic cgi .Ic server option in the section .Sq Servers below to learn how .Pa path is processed. Cannot be provided more than once. .It Pa dir The root directory to serve. By default the current working directory is assumed. .El .Sh CONFIGURATION FILE The configuration file is divided into two sections: .Bl -tag -width xxxx .It Sy Global Options Global settings for .Nm . .It Sy Servers Virtual hosts definition. .El .Pp Within the sections, empty lines are ignored and comments can be put anywhere in the file using a hash mark .Pq Sq # , and extend to the end of the current line. A boolean is either the symbol .Sq on or .Sq off . A string is a sequence of characters wrapped in double quotes, .Dq like this . .Ss Global Options .Bl -tag -width 12m .It Ic ipv6 Ar bool Enable or disable IPv6 support. By default is off. .It Ic port Ar portno The port to listen on. By default is 1965. .It Ic protocols Ar string Specify the TLS protocols to enable. Refer to .Xr tls_config_parse_protocols 3 for the valid protocol string values. By default, both TLSv1.3 and TLSv1.2 are used. Use .Dq tlsv1.3 to enable only TLSv1.3. .It Ic mime Ar mime-type Ar file-extension Add a mapping for the given .Ar file-extension to the given .Ar mime-type . Both argument are strings. .It Ic chroot Pa path .Xr chroot 2 the process to the given .Pa path . The daemon has to be run with root privileges and thus the option .Ic user needs to be provided, so .Nm can drop the privileges. Note that they are dropped after loading the TLS keys, so it's recommended to put those outside the chroot. Future version of .Nm may require this. .It Ic user Ar string Run the daemon as the given user. .El .Ss Servers Every virtual host is defined by a .Ic server block: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic server Ar hostname Brq ... Match the server name using shell globbing rules. This can be an explicit name, .Ar www.example.com , or a name including a wildcards, .Ar *.example.com . .El .Pp Followed by a block of options that is enclosed in curly brackets: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic cert Pa file Path to the certificate to use for this server. The .Pa file should contain a PEM encoded certificate. This option is mandatory. .It Ic key Pa file Specify the private key to use for this server. The .Pa file should contain a PEM encoded private key. This option is mandatory. .It Ic root Pa directory Specify the root directory for this server. This option is mandatory. It's relative to the chroot, if enabled. .It Ic cgi Pa path Enable the execution of CGI scripts if .Pa path is a prefix of the user request string. An empty path "" will effectively enable the execution of any file with the executable bit set inside the root directory. .It Ic default type Ar string Set the default media type that is used if the media type for a specified extension is not found. If not specified, the .Ic default type is set to .Dq application/octet-stream . .It Ic lang Ar string Specify the language tag for the text/gemini content served. If not specified, no .Dq lang parameter will be added in the response. .It Ic index Ar string Set the directory index file. If not specified, it defaults to .Pa index.gmi . .It Ic auto Ic index Ar bool If no index file is found, automatically generate a directory listing. It's disabled by default. .It Ic location Pa path Brq ... Specify server configuration rules for a specific location. The .Pa path argument will be matched against the request path with shell globbing rules. In case of multiple location statements in the same context, the last matching location will be put into effect. Therefore is advisable to match for a generic paths first and for more specific ones later on. A .Ic location section may include most of the server configuration rules except .Ic cert , Ic key , Ic root , Ic location No and Ic CGI . .El .Sh CGI When CGI scripts are enabled for a directory, a request for an executable file will execute it and fed its output to the client. .Pp The CGI scripts are executed in the root directory of the virtual host, or in the served directory if run without config, and inherits the environment from .Nm with these additional variables set: .Bl -tag -width 18m .It Ev GATEWAY_INTERFACE "CGI/1.1" .It Ev SERVER_PROTOCOL "GEMINI" .It Ev SERVER_SOFTWARE "gmid" .It Ev SERVER_PORT "1965" .It Ev SERVER_NAME The vhost. This variable is not available when operating without a configuration. .It Ev SCRIPT_NAME The (public) path to the script, e.g. .Pa "/cgi-bin/example.cgi" .It Ev SCRIPT_EXECUTABLE The full path to the executable. .It Ev REQUEST_URI The user request (without the query parameters.) .It Ev REQUEST_RELATIVE The request relative to the script. .It Ev QUERY_STRING The query parameters. .It Ev REMOTE_HOST The remote IP address. .It Ev REMOTE_ADDR The remote IP address. .It Ev DOCUMENT_ROOT The root directory being served, the one provided with the .Ar d parameter to .Nm or the root directory of the virtual host. .It Ev AUTH_TYPE The string "Certificate" if the client used a certificate, otherwise unset. .It Ev REMOTE_USER The subject of the client certificate if provided, otherwise unset. .It Ev TLS_CLIENT_ISSUER The is the issuer of the client certificate if provided, otherwise unset. .It Ev TLS_CLIENT_HASH The hash of the client certificate if provided, otherwise unset. The format is "ALGO:HASH". .El .Pp Let's say you have a script in .Pa /cgi-bin/script and the user request is .Pa /cgi-bin/script/foo/bar?quux . Then .Ev SCRIPT_NAME will be .Pa cgi-bin/script , .Ev SCRIPT_EXECUTABLE will be .Pa $DOCUMENT_ROOT/cgi-bin/script , .Ev REQUEST_URI will be .Pa cgi-bin/script/foo/bar , .Ev REQUEST_RELATIVE will be .Pa foo/bar and .Ev QUERY_STRING will be .Ar quux . .Sh EXAMPLES Serve the current directory .Bd -literal -offset indent $ gmid . .Ed .Pp To serve the directory .Pa docs and enable CGI scripts inside .Pa docs/cgi , you can .Bd -literal -offset indent $ mkdir docs/cgi $ cat < cgi/hello #!/bin/sh printf "20 text/plain\\r\\n" echo "hello world" EOF $ chmod +x docs/cgi/hello $ gmid -x cgi docs .Ed .Pp Note that the argument to the .Fl x option is .Pa cgi and not .Pa docs/cgi , since it's relative to the document root. .Pp The following is an example of a possible configuration for a site that enables only TLSv1.3, adds a mime type for the file extension "rtf" and defines two virtual host: .Bd -literal -offset indent ipv6 on # enable ipv6 protocols "tlsv1.3" mime "application/rtf" "rtf" server "example.com" { cert "/path/to/cert.pem" key "/path/to/key.pem" root "/var/gemini/example.com" } server "it.example.com" { cert "/path/to/cert.pem" key "/path/to/key.pem" root "/var/gemini/it.example.com" cgi "/cgi-bin" lang "it" } .Ed .Pp Yet another example, showing how to enable a .Ic chroot and use .Ic location rule .Bd -literal -offset indent chroot "/var/gemini" user "_gmid" server "example.com" { cert "/path/to/cert.pem" key "/path/to/key.pem" root "/var/gemini/example.com" location "/static/" { auto index on index "index.gemini" } } .Ed .Sh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .Nm uses the .Dq Flexible and Economical UTF-8 decoder written by .An Bjoern Hoehrmann . .Sh CAVEATS .Bl -bullet .It The root directories of all virtual hosts are opened during the daemon startup; this means that if a root directory gets deleted and then re-created, .Nm won't be able to serve files inside that directory until a restart. This restriction applies only to the root directories and not their content. .It a %2F sequence in the path part is indistinguishable from a literal slash: this is not RFC3986-compliant. .It a %00 sequence either in the path or in the query part is treated as invalid character and thus rejected. .El