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 # molly-brown
 
-The Unsinkable Molly Brown: a full-featured Gemini server implemented in Go
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+The Unsinkable Molly Brown: a full-featured Gemini server implemented in Go.
+
+For more info on Gemini see https://gemini.circumlunar.space or
+gopher://gemini.circumlunar.space.
+
+## Installation
+
+The easiest way for now to install Molly Brown is to use the standard
+Golang tool `go` (note I said "easiest", not "easy" - this is still a
+pretty clunky manual process, sorry).  Unfortunately, you have to do a
+little bit of preparation for this to work (unless you're a Go
+developer yourself in which case you surely already have this done)...
+
+### Prepare your $GOPATH
+
+1. Create an empty directory `~/go`.
+2. Set the $GOPATH environment variable to `~/go`.
+
+(you can in fact put your $GOPATH anywhere you like, but `~/go` is the
+convention)
+
+### Fetch and build MB
+
+Run `go get tildegit.org/solderpunk/molly-brown`.  If everything goes
+well, the end result of this will be that you'll have the Molly Brown
+source code sitting in `~/go/src/tildegit.org/solderpunk/molly-brown`
+and an executable binary sitting at `~/go/bin/molly-brown`.  If it
+makes you happier or your life easier, you can copy that binary to
+`/usr/sbin/` or anywhere else.
+
+### Configuration
+
+In the source directory mentioned above, you should find a file named
+`example.conf`.  Copy this to `/etc/molly.conf` and edit it to suit
+your environment.  The default values for all possible options are
+specified in the file - just uncomment and change the ones which won't
+work for you.  All options are explained below in the Configuration
+Options section.
+
+### Daemonisation and launching
+
+Currently Molly Brown just runs like an ordinary program, without
+daemonising itself.  You'll need to use another program, like the one
+at `http://libslack.org/daemon/`, to handle daemonising.
+
+Currently Molly Brown is not integrated with any kind of init system,
+so you'll have to handle getting it to start on boot up yourself.  If
+you are using a sufficiently right-headed operating system, the
+easiest way to do this is by putting your call to `daemon` (or
+whatever else you use) in `/etc/rc.local`.
+
+If you write a working systemd unit file for Molly Brown, please feel
+free to share it with me and I'll get it into the repo.
+
+Note that Golang programs are unable to reliably change their UID once
+run (a source of constant frustration to me!).  So don't start it as
+root, or it'll remain as root forever.  Run it as `nobody`, or a
+dedicated `molly` user.  Make sure that user has read access to the
+TLS keys and write access to the specified log file.
+
+## Configuration Options
+
+The following options can be set in `/etc/molly.conf`:
+
+* `Port`: The TCP port to listen for connections on (default value
+  `1965`).
+* `Hostname`: The hostname to respond to requests for (default value
+  `localhost`).  Requests for URLs with other hosts will result in a
+  status 53 (PROXY REQUEST REFUSED) response.
+* `CertPath`: Path to TLS certificate in .pem format (default value
+  `cert.pem`).
+* `KeyPath`: Path to TLS private key in .pem format (default value
+  `key.pem`).
+* `DocBase`: Base directory for Gemini content (default value
+  `/var/gemini/`).
+* `HomeDocBase`: Requests for paths beginning with `~/username/` will
+  be looked up relative to `DocBase/HomeDocBase/username/` (default
+  value `users`).  Note that Molly Brown does *not* look inside user's
+  actual home directories like you may expect based on experience with
+  other server software.  Of course, you can symlink
+  `/var/gemini/users/gus/` to `/home/gus/public_gemini/` if you want.
+* `LogPath`: Path to log file (default value `molly.log`).  Note that
+  all intermediate directories must exist, Molly Brown won't create
+  them for you.
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+#Port = 1965
+#Hostname = "localhost"
+#CertPath = "cert.pem"
+#KeyPath = "key.pem"
+#DocBase = "/var/gemini/"
+#HomeDocBase = "users"
+#LogPath = "molly.log"
+#CGIPath = "^/var/gemini/cgi-bin/"