htwtxt – hosted twtxt server

Rationale

"twtxt" is a protocol and client (https://github.com/buckket/twtxt) for decentralized microblogging. Users are expected to provide their feeds as plain text files with URLs accessible over the Internet. "htwtxt" is a web server to host and grow such text files for users without trivial access to their own web space.

Clone, build, run

With htwtxt written in Go, the following instructions expect a Go development environment with the go tool (https://golang.org/cmd/go/) installed, and the $GOPATH set:

git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt $GOPATH/src/
go get htwtxt
mkdir ~/htwtxt
cp -R $GOPATH/src/htwtxt/templates ~/htwtxt
cd ~/htwtxt
$GOPATH/bin/htwtxt

This will build and start the server, and set up directories and files expected by it below ~/htwtxt (or any other path you prefer instead of this).

Configuring port number and TLS

By default, htwtxt serves unencrypted HTTP over port 8000. But the executable accepts up to three optional arguments to change this:

$GOPATH/bin/htwtxt [PORT] [CERTIFICATE] [KEY]

PORT is the port number to serve. CERTIFICATE and KEY are paths to the certificate and key files needed to run htwtxt as a HTTPS server.

Copyright, license

htwtx (c) 2016 Christian Heller a.k.a. plomlompom

License: Affero GPL version 3, see ./LICENSE