Melchior

This is meant to be an extremely simple static file server that operates on the gemini protocol. I mostly just wanted an extremely simple and hopfully secure server to run at home.

Features

• Configured with environment variables

Running

In order to run this, at the very least you’ll need to generate a certificate. I’ve been using a command like this.

openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout localhost.key -nodes -x509 -out localhost.crt -subj "/CN=localhost"

After getting the certificates generated you can run this by doing

env MELCHIOR_TLS_CERT=localhost.crt MELCHIOR_TLS_KEY=localhost.key MELCHIOR_HOSTNAME=localhost MELCHIOR_BIND_ADDR=127.0.0.1:1965 MELCHIOR_ROOT_DIR=. go run melchior.go

If you don’t have a gemini client handy, you can use socat to do some testing

socat - OPENSSL-connect:127.0.0.1:1965,verify=0

Installation

# I'm doing a static build so that I can run this more easily in a container-ish environment
go build -ldflags "-linkmode external -extldflags -static" -a melchior.go
cp melchior /usr/local/bin/melchior
cp melchior-daemon.service /etc/systemd/system/melchior-daemon.service
chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/melchior-daemon.service

sudo systemctl enable melchior-daemon
sudo systemctl start melchior-daemon