port70 - a Gopher server (RFC-1436) written in Lua. This currently runs my own personal Gopher server at <gopher://gopher.conman.org/> but should be usable by people other than myself, unlike my previous Gopher server. Features: * Configurable filenames for Gopher index files. * A much nicer Gopher index file format native to this program. * Generates Gopher indexes for directories that lack a Gopher index file. * Support for user directories. * Support for URL: selectors. * Support for CGI scripts * Easily extensible with support for custom handlers. * Experiemental support for selector redirection. * Configuration via file. Prerequisites: * Lua >= 5.3 * GNU libmagic (NOTE: this is NOT image manipulation, but file identification) * LPEG >= 1.0.0 * A whole bunch of other Lua modules, available at: * https://github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg * https://github.com/spc476/LPeg-Parsers Installation: This will require some work. You will need to download the modules listed above from Github and get them installed. The lua-conmanorg repository will take some futzing around to get it compiled (first hint: remove any mention of tcc in the Makefile). But once you have all the prerequisites installed, the server should just work. Bulding: Just type "make". If you have the Lua include files in a non-standard location, you may need to do: make LUA_INCDIR=/path/to/Lua/includes or even make LUA=<luaexec> LUA_INCDIR=/path/to/Lua/includes You can do "make install" if you want to install the server onto the system: make install This will install files in the following locations: /usr/local/bin/port70 # server /usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/port70/ # server modules (written in C) /usr/local/share/lua/5.3/port70/ # server modules (written in Lua) To fine tune, you can from the command line: make [location] install The various [location] options are (multiple can be specified) prefix=target-dir target-dir/bin/port70 target-dir/lib/lua/5.3/port70/ target-dir/share/lua/5.3/port70/ LUADIR=target-dir target-dir/port70/ # modules written in Lua LIBDIR=target-dir target-dir/port70/ # modules written in C BINDIR=target-dir target-dir/port70/ # server program Configuration: The file "minimal-conf.lua" is the bare minimum configuration file you'll need to serve up files from a directory, but do look at the sample-conf.lua file as that has extensive comments about each section and what is required, and what isn't. It will help to know some Lua, especially Lua string patterns (its form of regex) as various sections of the configuration are applied to requests via pattern matching of the request. Gopher Index files While the standard gopher index file format described in RFC-1436: 0This is a file<HT>file-selector<HT>example.com<HT>70<CRLF> this program does have its own gopher index file that is easier to write and less error prone. Lines that do NOT start with a tab (<HT>) are converted as is to the gopher 'i' type (information). Lines that do start with a tab are converted. The generalized format is: <HT>type<HT>selector<HT>description The following types supported are: file selector refers to a text file (type 0) dir selector refers to a directory (type 1) CSO selector refers to a CSO phone-book server (type 2) binhex selector refers to a BinHexed Macintosh file (type 4) EXE selector refers to an executable file (type 5) uuencode selector refers to a UNIX uuencoded file (type 6) search selector refers to an Index-Search server (type 7) telnet selector refers to a text-based telnet session (type 8) binary selector refers to a binary file (type 9) gif selector refers to a GIF file (type g) image selector refers to a non-GIF image file (type I) html selector refers to an HTML file (type h) url selector is a URL (more below) The 'url' type is special since the selector is an actual URL---what type is used determined by the URL given (a full URL is expected, with scheme). Example: url gopher://gopher.example.com/ Some random server will create a type 1 entry (directory) with a blank selector, a host of "gopher.example.com" and a port number of 70. url https://www.example.com/ Some other random server will create a type h entry (HTML) with a selector of "URL:https://www.example.com". One final type is supported to allow dynamic content in the page to be generated. If the type is "Lua{", the following lines until a "Lua}" will be collected and executed as Lua code. The only global available will be the require() function, allowing one to include other Lua modules without polluting the namespace of the main program. The "share/index.port70" is an example of this format. It will generate a file that closely matches the "share/index.gopher" file (sans the dynamic output).