# NAME
**gmid** - dead simple gemini server
# SYNOPSIS
**gmid**
\[**-h**]
\[**-c** *cert.pem*]
\[**-d** *docs*]
\[**-k** *key.pem*]
# DESCRIPTION
**gmid**
is a very simple and minimal gemini server.
It only supports serving static content, and strive to be as simple as
possible.
**gmid**
will strip any sequence of
*../*
or trailing
*..*
in the requests made by clients, so it's impossible to serve content
outside the
*docs*
directory by mistake.
Furthermore, on
OpenBSD,
pledge(2)
and
unveil(2)
are used to ensure that
**gmid**
dosen't do anything else than read files from the given directory and
accept network connections.
It should be noted that
**gmid**
is very simple in its implementation, and so it may not be appropriate
for serving site with lots of users.
After all, the code is single threaded and use a single process.
The options are as follows:
**-c** *cert.pem*
> The certificate to use, by default is
> *cert.pem*
**-d** *docs*
> The root directory to serve.
> **gmid**
> won't serve any file that is outside that directory.
**-h**
> Print the usage and exit
**-k** *key.pem*
> The key for the certificate, by default is
> *key.pem*
# EXAMPLES
To quickly getting started
$ # generate a cert and a key
$ openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem \
-out cert.pem -days 365 -nodes
$ mkdir docs
$ cat <<EOF > docs/index.gmi
# Hello world
test paragraph...
EOF
$ gmid -c cert.pem -k key.pem -d docs
now you can visit gemini://localhost/ with your preferred gemini client.
# CAVEATS
* it doesn't support virtual host: the host part of the request URL is
completely ignored.
* it doesn't fork in the background or anything like that.
