phd is an esoteric gopher server for small gopherholes.

point it at a directory and it'll serve up all its text files, sub-directories, and binary files over gopher. any .gph files will be served up as gopermaps, and executable .gph files will be run as a script with their output served to the client, like cgi!

special files:

any line in a .gph file that doesn't contain tabs (\t) and doesn't start with an i will get an i automatically prefixed, turning it into a gopher information item.

any .gph file that is marked executable with be run as if it were a shell script and its output will be sent to the client. it will be passed three arguments: the query string (if any, the host, and the port. do with them what you will.

for example:

$ cat echo.gph
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hi, world! You said:" $1
echo "1Visit Gopherpedia    /   gopherpedia.com 70"

then:

$ gopher-client gopher://localhost/1/echo?something
[INFO] Hi, world! You said: something
[LINK] Visit Gopherpedia

or more seriously:

$ cat figlet.gph
#!/bin/sh
figlet $1

then:

$ gopher-client gopher://localhost/1/figlet?hi gopher
[INFO]  _     _                     _               
[INFO] | |__ (_)   __ _  ___  _ __ | |__   ___ _ __ 
[INFO] | '_ \| |  / _` |/ _ \| '_ \| '_ \ / _ \ '__|
[INFO] | | | | | | (_| | (_) | |_) | | | |  __/ |   
[INFO] |_| |_|_|  \__, |\___/| .__/|_| |_|\___|_|   
[INFO]             |___/      |_|

usage

phd [options] <directory>

phd ./path/to/gopher/root    # Serve directory over port 70.
phd -p 7070 docs             # Serve 'docs' directory on port 7070
phd -h localhost             # Serve current dir using hostname "localhost".

installation

binaries for linux, mac, and raspberry pi are available at https://github.com/dvkt/phd/releases:

just unzip/untar the phd program into your $PATH and get going!

development

cargo run -- ./path/to/gopher/site

resources

todo