Installing molly-brown

It seemed easier to use molly-brown installed directly from apt

than to clone the agate git repo and build agate from source...

(and in the end it just works, so I think that's a result)

Mostly copied from

sudo apt install molly-brown

the config file will be something like:

Hostname = "your.domain.name"
Port = 1965
CertPath = "/home/USER/.config/molly-brown/certs/cert.pem"
KeyPath = "/home/USER/.config/molly-brown/certs/key.pem"
DocBase = "/home/USER/gemini"
AccessLog = "/home/USER/.var/log/molly/access.log"
ErrorLog = "/home/USER/.var/log/molly/error.log"

make a directory structure to hold the config and logs, including the

sub-directories (if they're missing systemd won't be able to start

the server (I know, I tried...)

create server TLS certificates

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout \ 
~/.config/molly-brown/certs/key.pem \
-out ~/.config/molly-brown/certs/cert.pem \
-days 3650 -nodes -subj "/CN=your.domain.name"

open firewall : TCP/1965

make a systemd service /usr/lib/systemd/system/molly-brown.service

[Unit]
Description=Molly-Brown Startup
Wants=network.target
After=syslog.target network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/molly-brown -c /home/USER/.config/molly-brown/molly.conf
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
KillMode=mixed

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

make sure all the directories are in place (config/cert/logs)

sudo systemctl enable molly-brown
sudo systemctl start molly-brown

add content to ~/gemini

an index.gmi would be good...