=> contrib.gmi contrib => /quickstart.gmi Quickstart => /gmid.1.txt docs # gmid > A Gemini server ## Features * sandboxed by default on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux * able to reload the configuration on-the-fly without loosing connections * punycode and IRI support * reverse proxying * CGI and FastCGI support * virtual hosts and per-location rules * low memory footprint * event-based asynchronous I/O model * rich configuration file => gmid.1.txt Read the manpage. ## Install Some distros provide a package — thanks to the maintainers! => https://repology.org/project/gmid/versions [https] Repology: packaging status for gmid Source code and precompiled binaries for linux are available: => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/gmid-1.7.5.tar.gz gmid-1.7.5.tar.gz => https://git.omarpolo.com/gmid/ git repository => gemini://git.omarpolo.com/gmid.git/ git repository via Gemini => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid GitHub mirror => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/gmid.linux.aarch64 gmid.linux.aarch64 => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/gmid.linux.amd64 gmid.linux.amd64 When in doubt, compile from source: it’s easy and takes less than a minute on a raspberry pi 3. The dependencies are: * libevent * OpenSSL/LibreSSL * libtls (from either LibreSSL or LibreTLS) * yacc or GNU bison Once all the dependencies are installed, building is as easy as: ```Example of how to compile from source $ curl -LO https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/gmid-1.7.5.tar.gz $ tar xzvf gmid-1.7.5.tar.gz $ cd gmid-1.7.5 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install # eventually ``` A SHA256 file is available. However, that only checks for accidental corruption: you can use signify (SHA256.sig and the public key gmid-1.7.pub) or GPG. The hash of the signify public key is also included in the SHA256 file and thus signed with my GPG. The signify public key for the next release ‘gmid-1.8.pub’ is also included. => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/SHA256 SHA256 => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/SHA256 SHA256.gpg => https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid/releases/download/1.7.5/SHA256.sig SHA256.sig To verify the signatures with signify(1) ```Example of how to verify the signature with signify $ signify -C -p gmid-1.7.pub -x SHA256.sig Signature Verified gmid-1.7.pub: OK gmid-1.7.5.tar.gz: OK gmid-1.8.pub: OK gmid.linux.aarch64: OK gmid.linux.amd64: OK ``` ## Change log for the last versions 1.7.5 “Space-dye Vest” fifth bugfix release — Released October 15, 2021 This version includes the following bugfix * don’t die when a connection is closed before being accepted by gmid (i.e. handle ‘ECONNRESET’) 1.7.4 “Space-dye Vest” fourth bugfix release — Released September 24, 2021 This version includes the following bugfix: * fix a possible out-of-bound access when handling a request for a non-existent file in the root directory of a vhost that's matched by the cgi option and the relative regression test. 1.7.3 “Space-dye Vest” third bugfix release — Released September 19, 2021 ### Improvements * follows symlinks * improved documentation and added key generation example (thanks! Anna) ### Bugfix * fix syslog logging on FreeBSD. Reported by Karl Jeacle, thanks! * don't crash if ``-c'' is missing in configtest mode (-n). Reported by heph, thanks! * allow fstat64 on linux (needed by glibc on aarch64). Reported by pine, thanks! 1.7.2 “Space-dye Vest” second bugfix release — Released July 19, 2021 This version incudes the following bugfix: * an un-initialized field in the configless code path leads to a crash on the first request. and the relative regression test. 1.7.1 “Space-dye Vest” bugfix release — Released July 11, 2021 This version includes two bugfixes: * use ${MAKE} to recursively call make. * fix the misleading example in the manpage: macros may not be reserved words 1.7 “Space-dye Vest” — Released July 10, 2021 Starting from this version gmid doesn't depend on lex anymore, but yacc is still needed. ### New features * initial fastcgi support! (it's still young!) * added user-defined macros, either via ‘-Dname=val’ or directly in the configuration file. * new ‘include’ keyword to load additional configuration files. * new ‘env’ rule to define environment vars for CGI scripts. * new ‘alias’ rule to define hostname aliases for a server. * allow ‘root’ to be specified per-location block. * pidfile support with the new ‘-P’ cli flag. * define ‘TLS_VERSION’, ‘TLS_CIPHER’ and ‘TLS_CIPHER_STRENGTH’ for CGI scripts. ### Improvements * remove limits on the number of virtual hosts and location blocks that can be defined. * print the datetime when logging to stderr. * use ‘text/x-patch’ for ‘.patch’ and ‘.diff’ files. * sort the auto index alphabetically. * various improvements to the log management. * drop the dependency on lex. * added ‘--help’ as synonym of ‘-h’ and ‘-V’/‘--version‘ to print the version. * c-like handling of strings in the configuration file: when two or more strings are next to each-others, are automatically joined into a single string. This is particularly useful with $-macros. ### Bug fixes * correctly handle CGI scripts that replies with the maxium header length allowed. * fixed the static target. * fixed recursive mkdirs for configless mode (i.e. create ‘~/.local/share/gmid’) * logs sent to syslog now have proper priority (before every message ended up as LOG_CRIT). Found by Anna “CyberTailor”, thanks! * ensure ‘%p’ (path) is always absolute in ‘block return’ rules. * fix automatic certificate generation, it caused problems on some adroid devices. Found by Gnuserland, thanks! * document the ‘log’ rule. * the seccomp filter was reworked and now it's known to work properly on a vast range of architectures (to be more specific: all the architectures supported by alpine linux), see github issue #4. Prompted and tested by @begss, thanks! * various improvements to the configure script, notified and fixed by Anna “CyberTailor”, thanks! * added a timeout to the regression tests. ### Breaking changes * if duplicate rules are found in the configuration file, an error is now raised instead of silently using only the last value. * (sort of) ‘gg’ moved to ‘regress’ as it's only used in the regression suite. * (notice) the “mime "mime-type" "extension"” rule was deprecated and replaced by the new “map "mime-type" to-ext "extension"”. The ‘mime’ rule will be removed in a future version because its syntax is incompatible with the new string auto-concat mechanism.