mdmw is a Markdown middleware HTTP server. It renders Markdown files and serves them back as HTML. It’s not meant to be your sole www-facing webserver as it cannot serve non-markdown files.

You can use mdmw to host a micro-blog, quickly share documents, host documentation, etc.

mdmw supports two storage drivers (i.e. where it pulls markdown files from):

• filesystem uses the OS filesystem to look up files
• spaces uses DigitalOcean Spaces to look up files

mdmw exposes an HTTP server and uses the URI as the path for the markdown files.

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• installation
  • use the docker image RECOMMENDED
  • use a pre-built mdmw binary
• usage
  • options
  • configuration examples
    • as a yaml config file
    • as cli flags
    • as environment variables
• license

installation

use the docker image RECOMMENDED

1. pull the latest docker image

docker pull kamaln7/mdmw:latest

use a pre-built mdmw binary

1. download a binary suitable for your OS from the releases page
2. place said binary in /usr/local/bin or wherever you would like

usage

mdmw listens on localhost:4000 by default. Refer to the options section below for details on how to change that. If you are using the docker image, you will need to expose port 4000

See the options section below on how to configure mdmw. You can run docker run -p 4000 kamaln7/mdmw (use -e or --env-file to pass configuration options) or run mdmw directly if you chose to not use Docker.

options

Usage:
  mdmw [flags]
Flags:
      --config string               config file (default is ./.mdmw.yaml)
      --filesystem.path string      path to markdown files (default "./files")
  -h, --help                        help for mdmw
      --listenaddress string        address to listen on (default "localhost:4000")
      --outputtemplate string       path to HTML output template
      --spaces.auth.access string   DigitalOcean Spaces access key
      --spaces.auth.secret string   DigitalOcean Spaces secret key
      --spaces.cache string         DigitalOcean Spaces cache time (default "0")
      --spaces.path string          DigitalOcean Spaces files path (default "/")
      --spaces.region string        DigitalOcean Spaces region
      --spaces.space string         DigitalOcean Spaces space name
      --storage string              storage driver to use (default "filesystem")
      --validateextension           validate that files have a markdown extension (default true)

There are three ways to configure mdmw. examples for each can be found below

1. use a config file (yaml, toml, json, etc.) and pass -config ./path/to/config
   • options become nested objects, see the example below
2. pass cli flags as described above
3. use environment variables
   • options become uppercase with periods replaced by underscores, see the example below

configuration examples

• listen on 0.0.0.0:8080
• serve files from a Space in AMS3

as a yaml config file

listenaddress: 0.0.0.0:8080
storage: spaces
spaces:
  auth:
    access: ACCESS KEY GOES HERE
    secret: SECRET KEY GOES HERE
  region: ams3
  space: SPACE NAME GOES HERE

as cli flags

mdmw \
  --listenaddress 0.0.0.0:8000 \
  --storage spaces \
  --spaces.auth.access "ACCESS KEY GOES HERE" \
  --spaces.auth.secret "SECRET KEY GOES HERE" \
  --spaces.region ams3 \
  --spaces.space "SPACE NAME GOES HERE"

as environment variables

LISTENADDRESS=0.0.0.0:8000 \
STORAGE=spaces \
SPACES_AUTH_ACCESS=ACCESS KEY GOES HERE \
SPACES_AUTH_SECRET=SECRET KEY GOES HERE \
SPACES_REGION=ams3 \
SPACES_SPACE=SPACE NAME GOES HERE \
mdmw

license

MIT. see LICENSE