rw.rs

An experimental software community with a 199X aesthetic.

To join, submit a pull request with your public key at users/<you>/authorized_keys¹.

Quickstart

$ # Fork rw.rs repo on GitHub
$ git clone https://github.com/<you>/rw.rs.git
$ cd rw.rs
$
$ # Generate key pair (or use an existing key)
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa_rwrs
$
$ # Add pub key to repo
$ mkdir users/<you>     # Note: <you> should be <= 10 chars
$ cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa_rwrs.pub users/<you>/authorized_keys
$ git add users/<you>/authorized_keys
$ git commit -m 'add user <you>'
$ git push
$
$ # Visit https://github.com/<you>/rw.rs.git
$ # Create pull request and wait until merged
$ # ...
$
$ # After ~10 minutes, account is auto-created
$ # Login!
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_rwrs <you>@rw.rs
$
$ # Set your motd
$ echo hello users >~/motd
$
$ # Make your web page at http://rw.rs/~<you>
$ mkdir ~/public_html
$ echo hello internet >~/public_html/index.html
$
$ # Idle in tilde.chat IRC
$ # Want a new feature? Feel free to submit PRs
$ # Enjoy

CGI-like setup

In quasi-nostalgic fashion, rw.rs also supports CGI-like web apps if you want to go beyond static HTML. Below is an example of a CGI-like PHP app, but you can use whatever language you wish.

adsr@rwrs:~$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/proxy.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'socat UNIX-LISTEN:$HOME/public_html/proxy.sock,fork,perm-early=0666 "SYSTEM:timeout 2 $HOME/proxy"'

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
adsr@rwrs:~$ ls -l ~/proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 adsr adsr 229 Dec 23 22:51 /home/adsr/proxy
adsr@rwrs:~$ cat proxy
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

require '/usr/share/lib/php/http.php';

http_handle(function($request, $set_code_fn, $set_header_fn) {
    $set_code_fn(200);
    $set_header_fn('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
    print_r($request);
});
adsr@rwrs:~$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
adsr@rwrs:~$ systemctl --user start proxy
adsr@rwrs:~$ systemctl --user status proxy
● proxy.service
   Loaded: loaded (/home/adsr/.config/systemd/user/proxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-12-23 22:56:46 UTC; 2s ago
 Main PID: 29686 (socat)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/proxy.service
           └─29686 socat UNIX-LISTEN:/home/adsr/public_html/proxy.sock,fork,perm-early=0666 SYSTEM:timeout 2 /home/adsr/proxy
adsr@rwrs:~$ curl -s 'localhost/~adsr/proxy/test'
Array
(
    [headers] => Array
        (
            [host] => adsr
            [user-agent] => curl/7.68.0
            [accept] => */*
            [x-forwarded-for] => ::1
            [x-forwarded-host] => localhost
            [x-forwarded-server] => default
            [connection] => Keep-Alive
        )

    [content] =>
    [verb] => GET
    [uri] => /~adsr/proxy/test
    [protocol] => HTTP/1.1
    [uri_parts] => Array
        (
            [path] => /~adsr/proxy/test
        )

    [params] => Array
        (
        )

)
adsr@rwrs:~$ curl -s -X POST -d 'param=1' 'localhost/~adsr/proxy/test'
Array
(
    [headers] => Array
        (
            [host] => adsr
            [user-agent] => curl/7.68.0
            [accept] => */*
            [content-type] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded
            [x-forwarded-for] => ::1
            [x-forwarded-host] => localhost
            [x-forwarded-server] => default
            [content-length] => 7
            [connection] => Keep-Alive
        )

    [content] => param=1
    [verb] => POST
    [uri] => /~adsr/proxy/test
    [protocol] => HTTP/1.1
    [uri_parts] => Array
        (
            [path] => /~adsr/proxy/test
        )

    [params] => Array
        (
            [param] => 1
        )

)

Footnotes

1. Due to abuse, only GitHub accounts with some sort of legit activity will be accepted. If you don't have any GitHub activity, please link to your GitHub account from some other established identity (e.g., another tilde host, GitLab, a personal web site, etc.) and make a note of such in your PR. For genuine beginners with no established identity, or people wishing to preserve anonymity, I apologize. Unfortunately scammers have used this service for spam and other crap, which has almost resulted in the hosting provider terminating us. ↩