I'm having a time with a local installation of pygopherd and hoped someone may have some insight. I have a few directories with text files. Those directories display and I can enter them to see the listing of each text file. However, I cannot open any text file unless I create a gophermap file listing each text file.

It is my understanding that a text files in a directory should be able to be viewed without a gophermap file. Am I mistaken? If I am is there a gophermap generator script that I can make use of? I also noticed that Paulie420 may have had a similar issue as posted on Github. But there were not any replies to him as of today.

Any hints, thoughts, or ideas are greatly appreciated.

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On 05 May 2021, winston1138 said the following...

I'm having a time with a local installation of pygopherd and hoped
someone mayhave some insight. I have a few directories with text files. Those directoriesdisplay and I can enter them to see the listing of each text file. However, Icannot open any text file unless I create a
gophermap file listing each textfile.

It is my understanding that a text files in a directory should be able
to beviewed without a gophermap file. Am I mistaken? If I am is there a gophermapgenerator script that I can make use of? I also noticed that Paulie420 mayhave had a similar issue as posted on Github. But there
were not any replies tohim as of today.

Any hints, thoughts, or ideas are greatly appreciated.

Hi Winston,

I also use pygopherd and to display a textfile I need to call it in my gophermap.

Here's how I call a textfile.

0Title to display<TAB>filename.txt

The <TAB> chars are important, make sure you do those.
Here's an example of one of my phlog entries;

0(2021-04-11 20:07:17 BST) Matrix Ftw<TAB>matrix_ftw.txt

Hope this helps.

---
|14Best regards,
|11Ch|03rist|11ia|15n |11a|03ka |11Me|03aTLoT|11io|15N

|07── |08[|10eml|08] |15ml@erb.pw |07── |08[|10web|08] |15www.erb.pw |07───┐ |07── |08[|09fsx|08] |1521:1/158 |07── |08[|11tqw|08] |151337:1/101 |07┬──┘ |07── |08[|12rtn|08] |1580:774/81 |07─┬ |08[|14fdn|08] |152:250/5 |07───┘
|07── |08[|10ark|08] |1510:104/2 |07─┘

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On 05 May 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

On 05 May 2021, winston1138 said the following...

I'm having a time with a local installation of pygopherd and hoped someone mayhave some insight. I have a few directories with text file Those directoriesdisplay and I can enter them to see the listing of e text file. However, Icannot open any text file unless I create a gophermap file listing each textfile.

It is my understanding that a text files in a directory should be abl to beviewed without a gophermap file. Am I mistaken? If I am is there gophermapgenerator script that I can make use of? I also noticed tha Paulie420 mayhave had a similar issue as posted on Github. But there were not any replies tohim as of today.

Any hints, thoughts, or ideas are greatly appreciated.

Hi Winston,

I also use pygopherd and to display a textfile I need to call it in my gophermap.

Here's how I call a textfile.

0Title to display<TAB>filename.txt

The <TAB> chars are important, make sure you do those.
Here's an example of one of my phlog entries;

0(2021-04-11 20:07:17 BST) Matrix Ftw<TAB>matrix_ftw.txt

Hope this helps.

Also, if you wish to just launch your gopher client straight to that textfile, you can do so like this;

lynx gopher://gopher.erb.pw/0/phlog/matrix_ftw.txt

the 0/ in the url means it's a textfile, then the rest is just the normal url/structure.

Again, hope this helps.

---
|14Best regards,
|11Ch|03rist|11ia|15n |11a|03ka |11Me|03aTLoT|11io|15N

|07── |08[|10eml|08] |15ml@erb.pw |07── |08[|10web|08] |15www.erb.pw |07───┐ |07── |08[|09fsx|08] |1521:1/158 |07── |08[|11tqw|08] |151337:1/101 |07┬──┘ |07── |08[|12rtn|08] |1580:774/81 |07─┬ |08[|14fdn|08] |152:250/5 |07───┘
|07── |08[|10ark|08] |1510:104/2 |07─┘

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Thank you for your reply. I did understand that. I was hoping to avoid creating a gophermap file for each directory. I am planning to create some directories with a lot of text files. There after I may update in dumps.

My next thought was to find (or write a script) to generate a gophermap based upon a directory listing. I see many gopherholes with long lists of directories and I assumed handcrafted gophermaps were not created to display them. But I could be wrong.

When I try to navigate directly to a file I do get an error message of,
"does not exist (no handler found) error.host 1"

I'm sure I am doing something wrong. And if ultimately I need to create gophermaps for each directory, I'll do so.

I am enjoying the journey...

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Hi winston1138,
Take a look at Gophernicus, it can list all the files within
a directory without manually making a gophermap, it also allows you
to execute any scripts for ex. page counter locally.
You can see the page counter at work at:
gopher://ozz.ddns.net
At the downloads section you'll find a script that makes Phlogging
very easy and automates the creation of sub dirs and gophermaps for
Phlog entries


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Thanks for the suggestion. I did try gophernicus and could seem to get the hole served, although the package said it installed properly. But I think I am going to try it again from scratch.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I did try gophernicus and could seem to get
the hole served, although the package said it installed properly. But I think I am going to try it again from scratch.

I installed it on my Raspberry Pi and it ran with no problems, also
tried to install it on my cloud server and wasn't successful there.
It could have been an issue with the whole virtual machine deployment..
who knows..
Good luck


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Paulie420 may have had a similar issue as posted on Github. But there
were not any replies to him as of today.

Any hints, thoughts, or ideas are greatly appreciated.

My issues with Pygopher and the file structure not showing up w/o a gophermap came down to permissions. I didn't have 775 in the /gopher file structure but Pygopherd was showing some 'unable to access' or 'unable to open file' error.

I kept playing with it and finally got .txt's to open w/o a gophermap file - which was the only way for me because some directories had 1000s of files; I wasn't going to make a gophermap for them.

Sorry my reply was delayed - I've been having some FTN issues here.



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No worries. I ultimately spun up a new virtual server and have my hole running on Gophernicus. Now I'll move to secure it and change some of the permissions, documenting my changes along the way.

I'm just glad I am finally running something. I have enjoyed the seemingly uncharted territory as there is very little documentation out there these days. Or perhaps just in comparison to what I am used to with regard to other software.

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No worries. I ultimately spun up a new virtual server and have my hole running on Gophernicus. Now I'll move to secure it and change some of
the permissions, documenting my changes along the way.

Awesome; let us know if you do any of the more advanced stuff now that you're on Gophernicus. Even if its just a counter script.



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On 10 May 2021, paulie420 said the following...

No worries. I ultimately spun up a new virtual server and have my hol running on Gophernicus. Now I'll move to secure it and change some of

Awesome; let us know if you do any of the more advanced stuff now that you're on Gophernicus. Even if its just a counter script.

I've been happy With Gophernicus for a few years now. As I understand it, Pygopherd still hasn't finished with the rewrite to Python3, and I know that John said he wasn't going to do it.

Bucktooth is also easy to get going, uses inetd, and is written in Perl, so it's basically duump the script, chown the dir tree and edit /etc/xinetd.conf

I serve files up to around a Gbyte now from there so Gophernicus (or
Geomyidae - gopher://gopher.r-36.net/1/scm/geomyidae are better suited for those roles IMO).

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I've been happy With Gophernicus for a few years now. As I understand it, Pygopherd still hasn't finished with the rewrite to Python3, and I know that John said he wasn't going to do it.

I've heard that Gophernicus will run the script(s) that I want with ease - I just haven't bothered to switch it over yet. Seems like each software displays gophermap's a bit differently and I'm scared that I'll have to rewrite things. I know Gopher is 'standard', but I swear that... either I'm not writing my Gophermap's correctly or the different servers do interpret maps differently.

Thanks for the tip, tho... I didn't know that Pygopherd was not being developed anymore. Makes sense; my issue went unanswered... thx.



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For those interested, I've made a few simple scripts to use
with Gophernicus. A visitor counter and a random quote script.
You can download it at:
gopher://ozz.ddns.net
Also available for download is a Phlogging script, that I found
somewhere else but adapted it to make it easier to use with
Gophernicus


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For those interested, I've made a few simple scripts to use
with Gophernicus. A visitor counter and a random quote script.
You can download it at:
gopher://ozz.ddns.net

Thanks for the link ; lol, without a counter on my current Gopher I don't know if I get enough traffic to make a switch to Gophernicus worthwhile... but with Pygopherd I can't run a counter script - and .... but --- OMG. :P

Appreciate you sharing your scripts.. maybe one day I'll jump over and use yours/create my own 'Gopher magic'. You rock.



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