[gopher] Gophernicus 1.2-beta & virtual hosting

Kim Holviala kim at holviala.com
Sat Sep 17 07:17:11 UTC 2011


On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, 23:21:01 EEST, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikizine.org> wrote:

[blah blah about Gopher not having vhosts]
> This explains a lot. It seems that I had an different definition of the 
> concept "virtual hosting". Then it is logical "that it does not work".

You're right. And you're wrong. It works just fine, but all vhosts share a common root menu. You'll just have to be creative... :-D

> 
> I will (at least for now) not use this virtual hosting. A gopher link is 
> still a URL. I find it very important that a url always point to the 
> same spot.

All URL's point exacly where they should point, it's just the shared root menu that requires a bit of fiddling around..

> In any case, that makes things more simpler, and that is 
> where it is all about with gopher, keeping it simple.

I agree, and that's why I don't really use the vhosting for anything...
 
> I like your visitor counter ;)

:-D. It was sooo 90's that I just had to do it. Now all I need is a "Best browsed with Lynx" -banner. 


- Kim




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