-.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.17 2016/05/28 13:40:49 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.22 2017/03/18 16:48:24 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2016 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 28 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 18 2017 $
.Dt MAN.CGI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Pa /cgi-bin .
When using
.Ox
-.Xr httpd 8
-or
-.Xr nginx 8 ,
+.Xr httpd 8 ,
the
.Xr slowcgi 8
proxy daemon is needed to translate FastCGI requests to plain old CGI.
This is used in generated HTML code.
.It Dv CUSTOMIZE_TITLE
An ASCII string to be used for the HTML <TITLE> element.
-.It Dv HTTP_HOST
-The FQDN of the (possibly virtual) host the HTTP server is running on.
-This is used for
-.Ic Location:
-headers in HTTP 303 responses.
.It Dv MAN_DIR
A file system path to the
.Nm
.Pp
.Dl make man.cgi
.Pp
-and copy the files to the proper locations.
-Reading the
-.Cm installcgi
-target in the
-.Pa Makefile
-can help with that, but do not run it without carefully checking it
-because the directory layouts of web servers vary greatly.
+and copy the resulting binary to the proper location,
+for example using the command:
+.Pp
+.Dl make installcgi
+.Pp
+In addition to that, make sure the default manpath contains the files
+.Pa man1/apropos.1
+and
+.Pa man8/man.cgi.8 ,
+or the documentation links at the bottom of the index page will not work.
.Ss URI interface
.Nm
uniform resource identifiers are not needed for interactive use,
.Pa /OpenBSD-current/man1/mandoc.1 .
This can be abbreviated according to the following syntax:
.Sm off
-.Op / Ar manpath Oo / Cm man Ar sec Oc Op / Ar arch
+.Op / Ar manpath
+.Op / Cm man Ar sec
+.Op / Ar arch
.Pf / Ar name Op \&. Ar sec
.Sm on
.It
data directory containing all the manual trees.
Can be overridden by
.Dv MAN_DIR .
-.It Pa /man/mandoc/man1/apropos.1 , /man/mandoc/man8/man.cgi.8
-Manual pages documenting
-.Nm
-itself, linked from the index page.
.It Pa /man/manpath.conf
The list of available manpaths, one per line.
If any of the lines in this file contains a slash
based on
.Xr mandoc 1
first appeared in mdocml-1.12.1 (March 2012).
-The current SQLite3-based version first appeared in
-.Ox 5.6 .
+The current
+.Xr mandoc.db 5
+database format first appeared in
+.Ox 6.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
program was written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
-and ported to the SQLite3-based
-.Xr mandoc.db 5
-backend by
-.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .
+and is maintained by
+.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org ,
+who also designed and implemented the database format.