[gopher] motsognir UserDir=

[Michael Beaveridge]

I worked this out after a bit of head scratching and document reading.  Now all I need to work out is how to automatically start that second daemon :)  Thank-you.

.michael, ve7ki
Vernon, BC (Canada)

Nothing worth doing comes easy.


> On May 10, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I'm sorry for the longish delay of my answer, I only got your message today (it would seem to be related to some moderation troubles on the gopher list). Please find my answer below.
> 
> On 18/04/2016 03:02, Michael Beaveridge wrote:
>> I have the line UserDir=/home/%s/public_gopher/ in my motsognir.conf file, and
>> motsognir running as a daemon on ubuntu 15.x under xinetd. I have the directory
>> public_gopher in my /home/username
>> directory and no matter what I try I can't get naught but an error (Forbidden!)
>> when trying to go to it with the link:
>> gopher://gopher.mydomain.tld/1/users/myusername or without the /1 or using
>> /home/ or anything. What have I done wrong? Thanks.
> 
> The actual URL you should connect to is this:
> 
> gopher://gopher.mydomain.tld/1/~yourusername/
> 
> does this bring any result?
> 
> If not, could you please tell me what version of Motsognir you run exactly, and provide me with the logs that Motsognir outputs when it fails to display a user directory?
> 
> cheers,
> Mateusz
> 
> 
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