Wolfgang Faust | 1 Sep 2011 19:56
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Re: [gopher] Gopher Archive

The Gopher Proxy & Archive is now available online at
http://gpa.internetearth.com
It is currently in a very rough format, and thus has been
password-protected. The username is gopher-project & the password is
gpa-test-476 . Please try it out! Send any bugs to
me, or add them to this thread.

.-=  K N O W N   B U G S  =-.
- Viewing plain text documents makes everything appear monospaced (if
you can figure out why, tell me!)
- The links at the top don't work
- Telnet sessions send you to a telnet:// URL, which won't work in many browsers
- Images, HTML, etc. don't appear inline
- The final .<CRLF> appears.

Thanks for testing!

-- Wolfgang
Brian Koontz | 1 Sep 2011 21:33

Re: [gopher] Gopher Archive

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:56:29PM +0000, Wolfgang Faust wrote:
> The Gopher Proxy & Archive is now available online at
> http://gpa.internetearth.com
> It is currently in a very rough format, and thus has been
> password-protected. The username is gopher-project & the password is
> gpa-test-476 . Please try it out! Send any bugs to
> me, or add them to this thread.

Type 1 selectors seem to fail.   

URLs work OK.

  --Brian

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Wolfgang F. | 2 Sep 2011 00:01
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[gopher] Fwd: Gopher Archive

I'm having a terrible time with the gopher-project mail server--posts
keep bouncing!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Wolfgang F." <wolfgangmcq@...>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:58:12 -0400
Subject: Re: [gopher] Gopher Archive
To: Gopher Project Discussion <gopher-project@...>

Type 1 is menu, right? Those are the first ones I tried! Can you give
me a specific URL that fails?

On 9/1/11, Brian Koontz <brian@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:56:29PM +0000, Wolfgang Faust wrote:
>> The Gopher Proxy & Archive is now available online at
>> http://gpa.internetearth.com
>> It is currently in a very rough format, and thus has been
>> password-protected. The username is gopher-project & the password is
>> gpa-test-476 . Please try it out! Send any bugs to
>> me, or add them to this thread.
>
> Type 1 selectors seem to fail.
>
> URLs work OK.
>
>   --Brian
>
> --
> Don't have gopher?  Visit the world's first wiki-based gopher proxy!
> http://www.pongonova.org/gopherwiki
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Brian Koontz | 2 Sep 2011 00:51

Re: [gopher] Fwd: Gopher Archive

Any directories on pongonova.org or quux.org...those are the only two
sites I tested with.

  --Brian

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:01:07PM -0400, Wolfgang F. wrote:
> Type 1 is menu, right? Those are the first ones I tried! Can you give
> me a specific URL that fails?
> 
> On 9/1/11, Brian Koontz <brian@...> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:56:29PM +0000, Wolfgang Faust wrote:
> >> The Gopher Proxy & Archive is now available online at
> >> http://gpa.internetearth.com
> >> It is currently in a very rough format, and thus has been
> >> password-protected. The username is gopher-project & the password is
> >> gpa-test-476 . Please try it out! Send any bugs to
> >> me, or add them to this thread.
> >
> > Type 1 selectors seem to fail.
> >
> > URLs work OK.
> >
> >   --Brian
> >
> > --
> > Don't have gopher?  Visit the world's first wiki-based gopher proxy!
> > http://www.pongonova.org/gopherwiki
> > IRC: Freenode.net channel #gopherproject
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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Walter Vermeir | 14 Sep 2011 01:53
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[gopher] Gophernicus 1.2-beta & virtual hosting

Hi,

I have a support question about Gophernicus - hope that is allowed here;

Setup;
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & gophernicus 1.2
dynamic ip
use xinetd

the server works, root is served from /var/gopher
User gopherspace also fine

But virtual hosting is no-go until now.

vermeir.dyndns.org points to my dynamic ip and serves /var/gopher
gopher.wikizine.org is by CNAME pointed at vermeir.dyndns.org

And now that also serves /var/gopher

A directory named "gopher.wikizine.org" is created,  the symbol % is placed in gophermap.
But it does not serve it as a virtual host and it is also not listed as one.

from syslog;

Sep 13 23:32:27 gopherserverubuntu in.gophernicus: disabling vhosting: /var/gopher/gopherserverubuntu must exist

/var/gopher does exist
"gopherserverubuntu" is the name of the server.  But to make sure, I have also made a directory with that name, no change.

Clearly I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Walter

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Brian Koontz | 14 Sep 2011 01:36

Re: [gopher] Gophernicus 1.2-beta & virtual hosting

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 01:53:16AM +0200, Walter Vermeir wrote:
> But virtual hosting is no-go until now.

Walter--

I can't speak for gophernicus, but if you can't get virtual hosting to
work, you can follow these instructions to get it working with
bucktooth:

gopher://pongonova.org/0/notes/virtual_name_based_hosts_using_xinetd_and_buckd.txt

  --Brian

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Kim Holviala | 14 Sep 2011 06:07
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Re: [gopher] Gophernicus 1.2-beta & virtual hosting

On 14.9.2011 2:53, Walter Vermeir wrote:

> I have a support question about Gophernicus - hope that is allowed here;

Here, or just email me directly :-).

> Setup;
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & gophernicus 1.2
> dynamic ip
> use xinetd

So my xinetd installer worked? WOOHOO! I never use xinetd...

> But virtual hosting is no-go until now.
>
> vermeir.dyndns.org <http://vermeir.dyndns.org> points to my dynamic ip
> and serves /var/gopher
> gopher.wikizine.org <http://gopher.wikizine.org> is by CNAME pointed at
> vermeir.dyndns.org <http://vermeir.dyndns.org>
>
> And now that also serves /var/gopher
>
> A directory named "gopher.wikizine.org <http://gopher.wikizine.org>" is
> created,  the symbol % is placed in gophermap.
> But it does not serve it as a virtual host and it is also not listed as one.
>
> from syslog;
>
> Sep 13 23:32:27 gopherserverubuntu in.gophernicus: disabling vhosting:
> /var/gopher/gopherserverubuntu must exist

OK. Your servers hostname is apparently "gopherserverubuntu". As in if 
you type the command "hostname" you'll get that name. As a security 
precaution you need to have a virtual host directory for your own 
hostname or all of virtual hosting is disabled.

So, two ways to fix it:
$ sudo mkdir /var/gopher/`hostname`

or,
$ sudo vi /etc/xinetd.d/gophernicus

And the fix the -hwhatever option so that it uses one of your real 
virtual host names (the primary one). So most likely it should be 
"-hgopher.wikizine.org".

Also, now that I think about it you might not even need virtual hosting. 
You only have one hostname for your gopher server, right? Just place 
your content under /var/gopher and forget about vhosting....

> /var/gopher does exist
> "gopherserverubuntu" is the name of the server.  But to make sure, I
> have also made a directory with that name, no change.

Oh, that I didn't see before I wrote the above. Wait....

[looking through the code]

Are you sure you didn't mistype the directory name when you created it? 
The code is just stat():ing the directory it was complaining in syslog 
with no further checking.... Try "ls -la /var/gopher/gopherserverubuntu" 
and tell me what it says.

- Kim
Walter Vermeir | 14 Sep 2011 11:00
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Re: [gopher] Gophernicus 1.2-beta & virtual hosting

2011/9/14 Kim Holviala <kim <at> holviala.com>
>
> On 14.9.2011 2:53, Walter Vermeir wrote:
>
>> I have a support question about Gophernicus - hope that is allowed here;
>
> Here, or just email me directly :-).

Fantastic, the developer himself! You can not do any better ;-)

>>
>> Setup;
>> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & gophernicus 1.2
>> dynamic ip
>> use xinetd
>
> So my xinetd installer worked? WOOHOO! I never use xinetd...

Well, it is already more then a month ago that I did the server
install ... but I know it was not easy to get that aspect to work.

It seemed that Ubuntu does not use inetd.conf

Than manual says

" If your system comes with something else than standard
inetd make install should have done the right thing already."

 ... but it not worked directly. I have installed xinetd and then run
the installer again. And then it worked.

I was wondering way the default gophermap did not display the config
path. That script assumes the config file is;
/etc/xinetd.d/gopher

But it is;
/etc/xinetd.d/gophernicus

Is that relevant maybe?

> OK. Your servers hostname is apparently "gopherserverubuntu". As in if you type the command "hostname"
you'll get that name. As a security precaution you need to have a virtual host directory for your own
hostname or all of virtual hosting is disabled.
>

I could not find that in the documentation. If it is not there that
seems me useful to include it.

>
> So, two ways to fix it:
> $ sudo mkdir /var/gopher/`hostname`
>

that is present. To be sure I have removed and created it again with
the command above; no change.

>
> or,
> $ sudo vi /etc/xinetd.d/gophernicus
>
> And the fix the -hwhatever option so that it uses one of your real virtual host names (the primary one). So
most likely it should be "-hgopher.wikizine.org".
>

It is currently the  host vermeir.dyndns.org because that is the one
updated by the router making the internetconnection and the most
reliable.

The idea is that it is the primary one and others are virtual.

> Also, now that I think about it you might not even need virtual hosting. You only have one hostname for your
gopher server, right? Just place your content under /var/gopher and forget about vhosting....

Yes, that is an option. But "having need of it" is not a factor here.
I do not need to have any gopherserver, it is just for the fun of it.
I am going to put at gopher.wikizine.org the archive and current
edition of my newsletter - but I do not expect any visitors.

And because virtual hosting should be possible I would like to get it
working so I can setup other gophersapace stuff ...

>> /var/gopher does exist
>> "gopherserverubuntu" is the name of the server.  But to make sure, I
>> have also made a directory with that name, no change.
>
> Oh, that I didn't see before I wrote the above. Wait....
>
> [looking through the code]
>
> Are you sure you didn't mistype the directory name when you created it? The code is just stat():ing the
directory it was complaining in syslog with no further checking.... Try "ls -la
/var/gopher/gopherserverubuntu" and tell me what it says.
>
>
> - Kim

It gives;

walter <at> gopherserverubuntu:/etc/xinetd.d$ ls -la /var/gopher/gopherserverubuntu
totaal 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        4096 2011-09-14 09:25 .
drwxrwxr-x 8 root gopherspace 4096 2011-09-14 09:25 ..
walter <at> gopherserverubuntu:/etc/xinetd.d$

Do you think like Brain indicated that the fact I use xinetd and not
inetd could be the problem? - I have only one external ipadress.

Thanks,
Walter

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Jeff W | 13 Sep 2011 08:47
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[gopher] Whole lotta hits

Anyone else seeing unusually large numbers of hits on their servers
today?  Normally I get like a dozen or so; today: 491.  Most are from
various eastern european countries or indirect via that bytemark7
WWW-gopher gateway thing.  From the log it looks like intentional
hammering to try to crash the server (it didn't).

Jeff
Jeff W | 14 Sep 2011 05:00
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[gopher] Whole lotta hits

Anyone else seeing unusually large numbers of hits on their servers
today?  Normally I get like a dozen or so; yesterday: 491, today:160.
Most are from various eastern european countries or indirect via what
looks to be some sort of WWW-gopher gateway at bytemark7.spotonnet.co.uk.
From the log it looks like intentional hammering to try to crash the
server (it didn't).

Jeff

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