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title: Gopher Server
---
## The Gopher Content Server
The Gopher *content server* provides access to publicly exposed message conferences and areas over Gopher (gopher://).
## Configuration
Gopher configuration is found in `contentServers.gopher` in `config.hjson`.
| Item | Required | Description |
|------|----------|-------------|
| `enabled` | :+1: | Set to `true` to enable Gopher |
| `port` | :-1: | Override the default port of `8070` |
| `publicHostName` | :+1: | Set the **public** hostname/domain that Gopher will serve to the outside world. Example: `myfancybbs.com` |
| `publicPort` | :+1: | Set the **public** port that Gopher will serve to the outside world. |
| `messageConferences` | :+1: | An map of *conference tags* to *area tags* that are publicly exposed via Gopher. See example below. |
Notes on `publicHostName` and `publicPort`:
The Gopher protocol serves content that contains host/domain and port even when referencing it's own documents. Due to this, these members must be set to your publicly addressable Gopher server!
### Example
Let's suppose you are serving Gopher for your BBS at `myfancybbs.com`. Your ENiGMA½ system is listening on the default Gopher `port` of 8070 but you're behind a firewall and want port 70 exposed to the public. Lastly, you want to expose some fsxNet areas:
```hjson
contentServers: {
gopher: {
enabled: true
publicHostName: myfancybbs.com
publicPort: 70
messageConferences: {
fsxnet: { // fsxNet's conf tag
// Areas of fsxNet we want to expose:
"fsx_gen", "fsx_bbs"
}
}
}
}
```