Gopher Server

This is a dockerized version of a Gopher server. This container and its documentation was made by tiyn.

Setup

Navigate into the src directory and build the image using the following command.

docker build . -t gopher-server

Then create a rebuild.sh file. Change the settings accoding to your needs and run ./rebuild.sh afterward.

Environment-variables

Set the following variables with the -e tag.

Name	Usage	Default
`SERVER_NAME`	set this to your IP/Domain (no "gopher://" needed!)	`localhost`

Volumes

Set the following volumes with the -v tag.

Outside mount/volume name	Container mount	Description
`gopherwebdir`	`/var/gopher`	directory for the gopher page

Ports

Set the following ports with the -p tag.

Container port	Recommended outside port	Protocol	Description
`70`	`70`	TCP	port for the gopher-protocol

Example run-command

Run docker build . -t gopher-server in the src directory of this repository to build the image.

A container can be started with the following command.

rebuild.sh

docker stop gopher-server
docker rm gopher-server
docker run --name gopher-server -v gopherwebdir:/var/gopher -p 70:70 --restart unless-stopped -e SERVER_NAME=localhost -d gopher-server