Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : Spectre
From : DustCouncil
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 09:16:14

 Sp> I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as
 Sp> a gopher site.  It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house
 Sp> after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.

Gopher was a lot easier than I thought it would be and I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

More of an hour-or-two project rather than a whole weekend, if you ever get the urge or you get bored or something

With modern, up-to-date distributions, you will want to use this fork, which works with Python3.x if that is what is running on your system:

https://github.com/michael-lazar/pygopherd

From there it's a matter of ensuring you have a service file for it if you're using a systemd-based OS so it can start at boot.  You can probably just grab one from someone if you ever decide to do it.  Just ask.

Then, you need a gophermap file which is the index file pointing at resources.

I think I did it one night when I had insomnia, never having attempted it before.

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