Running a Gopher server on or with YunoHost

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone amongst you has successfully installed/run a Gopher server on YunoHost, or successfully installed one in parallel to YunoHost, and if yes: how?

I’m still relatively new to YunoHost. I saw a couple of apps offering a Gemini install, but that’s not what I’m after. I’m comfortable with installing Gophernicus or Pygopherd on a normal Debian server, but as YunoHost makes some non-trivial changes to how you can run things in a shell or access files, I’m not entirely comfortable I won’t mess things up. Although, of course, I will try :wink:

But if anyone amongst you has already tried something similar and succeeded, I would be inerested in hearing your story. Thank you!

To answer my own question, Pygopherd seems to chug nicely alongside YunoHost. The only detail is remembering to open up port 70 on YH firewall.
Keep on diggin’!

Hi skk,

Welcome to the forums, and thanks for answering your question :slight_smile:

In general you can consider your Yunohost server as a regular Debian server. Anything you are used to using on Debian will run on Yunohost, with the caveat that to access web services you may need the ‘custom webapp’ to evade the SSO login screen.

Software added outside of the “Yunohost catalog”, via regular apt or otherwise, will not in scope for testing upgrade paths once the next version of Debian comes around the corner of course. Once that time arrives, having loads of additional packages installed may throw apt off the smell of the ‘right’ upgrade sequence with some (usually minor) risk of complications during dist-upgrade.

Have fun gophering!

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Thank you @wbk for these precisions, I appreciate it very much!

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