[gopher] Gophermap 2 Index PHP script

[James Mills]

Oh'really? :) Old emails? I'm confused :P


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 7:04 PM, rl <rl at well.com> wrote:

> James, I am now!  Not back when that email was written.  RL
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au>
> Date: 8/19/17 20:45 (GMT-06:00)
> To: Gopher Project Discussion <gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: [gopher] Gophermap 2 Index PHP script
>
> I *thought* you were using gopherproxy[1] ? :D
>
> cheers
> James
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> [1] https://github.com/prologic/gopherproxy
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> James Mills / prologic
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> E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
> W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
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> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Ray Lopez <rl at well.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I still use gopher to serve files for my students, even though the
>> majority of them don't even know about gopher.  It is a lot easier for
>> me to manage the files on my gopher server, and the very clean interface
>> makes it pretty easy for the students to find what they need.
>>
>> Up until recently I was using the floodgap proxy to allow them to access
>> my gopher content.  But now I have created a very simple PHP script that
>> will read a gophermap and output the content as HTML.  This allows me to
>> easily keep and maintain my gopher site, and also allows easy access by
>> anyone who does not know about or want to know about gopher.
>>
>> You can get the script here:
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>> gopher://salsa.net/0/~rlopez/gophermap2index.txt
>>
>> And you can see it in action by going to:
>>
>> http://salsa.net/~rlopez
>>
>> It works best with the Motsognir gopher server, due to the use of the
>> %FILES% directive in a Motsognir-friendly gophermap.  But it should work
>> with pretty much any gophermap.
>>
>> To use it you'll need a set of gopher content with a gopher server and
>> http/php server pointing at the exact same content.  Simply edit this
>> script with your server's base URL, rename it to index.php and place it
>> in each directory that has a gophermap file in it.  Now when you point
>> your web server at that same directory, it should serve up the gophermap
>> contents.
>>
>> I've tested it as much as I can, but beware that this is a new script.
>> It has not been tested in any other environments other than my
>> LAMP/Motsognir server.
>>
>> I hope this is useful to others.  Feedback and code changes are
>> welcomed.
>>
>> RL
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