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diff --git a/doc/tips/ikiwiki_via_gopher.mdwn b/doc/tips/ikiwiki_via_gopher.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ffea70f73 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/ikiwiki_via_gopher.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Remember gopher? Ikiwiki can be served up by this venerable protocol. + +It's pretty simple to get it going. Just install pygopherd or another gopher +server, and have ikiwiki put its pages where that server expects. For +pygopherd, it was in `/var/gopher`. + +When building the wiki, make sure to specify --no-usedirs (or equivilant in +the setup file). Gopher doesn't convert "foo/" links into +"foo/index.html", so usedirs won't work well with it; if usedirs is +disabled, browsing through the wiki via gopher will work just fine. + +Since AFAIK gopher has no equivilant to CGI, you'll need to keep a +web server around for editing pages. If you do set up a cgi, make sure to +configure `url` to something like `gopher://hostname/h/`, so that it +links back properly to gopherspace from the CGI. + +One unresolved problem: Style sheets are not loaded. The urls seem ok, but +pygopherd seems to serve them in a form that doesn't work somehow. I have +not invesitaged more, because a fully unstyled web page fits the retro +gopher better anyhow. + +--[[Joey]] |