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gemini_site_setup_and_hosting_features [2022/08/11 22:30] – bolded note on file perms peteyboygemini_site_setup_and_hosting_features [2023/06/30 23:39] (current) – [Building Out Your Gemini Capsule] hc9
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 Welcome to the wonderful retro/alternative future of Gemini space! Welcome to the wonderful retro/alternative future of Gemini space!
  
-Here's the [[https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi|FAQ on Gemini]]. TL;DR, Gemini is an alternate internet protocol to either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol| HTTP]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher| Gopher]]. It's being touted as a modern alternative to Gopher, to bring back a lightweight, text-centric interweb but with some of the security features of modern day. As described in the FAQ:+Here's the [[https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi|FAQ on Gemini]]. TL;DR, Gemini is an alternate internet protocol to either [[wp>wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol| HTTP]] or [[wp>Gopher_(protocol)|Gopher]]. It's being touted as a modern alternative to Gopher, to bring back a lightweight, text-centric interweb but with some of the security features of modern day. As described in the FAQ:
 >You may think of Gemini as "the web, stripped right back to its essence" or as "Gopher, souped up and modernised just a little"... >You may think of Gemini as "the web, stripped right back to its essence" or as "Gopher, souped up and modernised just a little"...
  
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 In this tutorial when text looks like ''this'', this means it's a command you can run in your shell, either from the cluster, or if you've logged into the meta array. In this tutorial when text looks like ''this'', this means it's a command you can run in your shell, either from the cluster, or if you've logged into the meta array.
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 +===== Viewing Gemini Pages =====
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 +To start with, there are many ways to view your page and others in Geminispace. Here are the easiest ways you can [[accessing web spaces#Gemini| view gemini pages from the SDF shell]]
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 ===== Getting Started ===== ===== Getting Started =====
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 the top index.  Sites are listed by most recent activity first and will the top index.  Sites are listed by most recent activity first and will
 include a title if you created a heading (e.g.,'##My First Page!') on the first line of your ''index.gmi'' include a title if you created a heading (e.g.,'##My First Page!') on the first line of your ''index.gmi''
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-==== Viewing Your Gemini Homepage ==== 
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-You can use either of these Gemini browsers on the cluster or in the MetaArray: 
-  * //bombadillo//:  at shell type ''bombadillo <nowiki>gemini://sdf.org/{yourusername}/</nowiki>'' (this would go to your cluster page) or  
-  * //amfora//:  at shell type ''amfora <nowiki>gemini://gem.sdf.org/{yourusername}/</nowiki>'' (this would go to your [[metaarray]] page) 
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-Additionally, on the metaarray, you can use ''diohsc'' (located at ///meta/sdf/bin/diohsc//) 
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-If you want to get into Gemini more, there are shell and graphical clients available for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and IOS, you can look for them here: //<nowiki>gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/software/</nowiki>// 
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