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-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 22 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 11 2016 $
.Dt MAN.CGI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
CGI program searches for manual pages on a WWW server
and displays them to HTTP clients,
providing functionality equivalent to the
-.Xr apropos 1
-and
.Xr man 1
+and
+.Xr apropos 1
utilities.
It can use multiple manual trees in parallel.
.Ss HTML search interface
using the syntax described in the
.Xr apropos 1
manual; filling this in is required for each search.
+.Pp
+The expression is broken into words at whitespace.
+Whitespace characters and backslashes can be escaped
+by prepending a backslash.
+The effect of prepending a backslash to another character is undefined;
+in the current implementation, it has no effect.
.It
A
-.Dq Submit
-button to send a search request from the client to the server.
-.It
-A
-.Dq Reset
-button to undo any changes to the input boxes and the dropdown menus
-and reset them to the values contained in the
-.Ev QUERY_STRING .
-.It
-Radio buttons to select pages either by name like in
.Xr man 1
-or using
+submit button.
+The string in the input box is interpreted as the name of a manual page.
+.It
+An
.Xr apropos 1
-queries.
+submit button.
+The string in the input box is interpreted as a search
+.Ar expression .
.It
A dropdown menu to optionally select a manual section.
If one is provided, it has the same effect as the
Configure your web server to execute CGI programs located in
.Pa /cgi-bin .
When using
-.Xr nginx 8 ,
+.Ox
+.Xr httpd 8 ,
the
.Xr slowcgi 8
proxy daemon is needed to translate FastCGI requests to plain old CGI.
.Qq "manpath=OpenBSD "
where the blank character has to be translated to a hyphen.
When compiling for other sites, this definition can be deleted.
-.It Ev CSS_DIR
-An optional path to the directory containing the CSS files,
+.It Dv CSS_DIR
+An optional file system path to the directory containing the file
+.Pa mandoc.css ,
to be specified relative to the server's document root,
and to be specified without a trailing slash.
-When not specified, the CSS files
-are assumed to be in the document root.
+When empty, the CSS file is assumed to be in the document root.
+Otherwise, a leading slash is needed.
This is used in generated HTML code.
-.It Ev CUSTOMIZE_BEGIN
-A HTML string to be inserted right after opening the
-.Aq BODY
-element.
-.It Ev CUSTOMIZE_TITLE
-An ASCII string to be used for the HTML
-.Aq TITLE
-element.
-.It Ev HTTP_HOST
+.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 Ev MAN_DIR
-A path to the
+.It Dv MAN_DIR
+A file system path to the
.Nm
-data directory to be used instead of
-.Pa /var/www/man ,
-relative to the web server
+data directory relative to the web server
.Xr chroot 2
-directory, to be specified without a trailing slash.
-This is prepended to the manpath when opening
+directory, to be specified with a leading slash and without a trailing slash.
+It needs to have at least one component; the root directory cannot be used
+for this purpose.
+The files
+.Pa manpath.conf ,
+.Pa header.html ,
+and
+.Pa footer.html
+are looked up in this directory.
+It is also prepended to the manpath when opening
.Xr mandoc.db 5
and manual page files.
+.It Dv SCRIPT_NAME
+The initial component of URIs, to be specified without leading
+and trailing slashes.
+It can be empty.
.El
.Pp
After editing
.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,
.Cm http://
protocol specifier.
.It
-The host name and a following slash.
+The host name.
.It
-The path to the program, normally
-.Pa cgi-bin/man.cgi/ .
+The
+.Dv SCRIPT_NAME ,
+preceded by a slash unless empty.
.It
To show a single page, a slash, the manpath, another slash,
and the name of the requested file, for example
.Pa /OpenBSD-current/man1/mandoc.1 .
+This can be abbreviated according to the following syntax:
+.Sm off
+.Op / Ar manpath
+.Op / Cm man Ar sec
+.Op / Ar arch
+.Pf / Ar name Op \&. Ar sec
+.Sm on
.It
For searches, a query string starting with a question mark
and consisting of
.Pq Sq _
.El
.Pp
-In particular, this applies to the
-.Ev SCRIPT_NAME ,
-to all manpaths, and to all architecture names.
+In particular, this applies to all manpaths and architecture names.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The web server may pass the following CGI variables to
.Nm :
.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Ev SCRIPT_NAME
+The initial part of the URI passed from the client to the server,
+starting after the server's host name and ending before
+.Ev PATH_INFO .
+This is ignored by
+.Nm .
+When constructing URIs for links and redirections, the
+.Dv SCRIPT_NAME
+preprocessor constant is used instead.
.It Ev PATH_INFO
The final part of the URI path passed from the client to the server,
starting after the
It is used by the
.Cm search
page to acquire the named parameters it needs.
-.It Ev SCRIPT_NAME
-The path to the
-.Nm
-binary relative to the server root, usually
-.Pa /cgi-bin/man.cgi .
-This is used for generating URIs to be embedded
-in generated HTML code and HTTP headers.
-If this contains any character not contained in the
-.Sx Restricted character set ,
-.Nm
-reports an internal server error and exits without doing anything.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
directory.
All the following paths are specified relative to this directory.
.It Pa /cgi-bin/man.cgi
-The path to the
+The usual file system path to the
.Nm
-program relative to the server root.
-Can be overridden by
-.Ev SCRIPT_NAME .
+program inside the web server
+.Xr chroot 2
+directory.
+A different name can be chosen, but in any case, it needs to be configured in
+.Xr httpd.conf 5 .
.It Pa /htdocs
-The path to the server document root relative to the server root.
+The file system path to the server document root directory
+relative to the server
+.Xr chroot 2
+directory.
This is part of the web server configuration and not specific to
.Nm .
-.It Pa /htdocs/man-cgi.css
-A style sheet for general
-.Nm
-styling, referenced from each generated HTML page.
-.It Pa /htdocs/man.css
+.It Pa /htdocs/mandoc.css
A style sheet for
.Xr mandoc 1
-HTML styling, referenced from each generated HTML page after
-.Pa man-cgi.css .
+HTML styling, referenced from each generated HTML page.
.It Pa /man
Default
.Nm
data directory containing all the manual trees.
Can be overridden by
-.Ev 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.
+.Dv MAN_DIR .
.It Pa /man/manpath.conf
The list of available manpaths, one per line.
If any of the lines in this file contains a slash
.Sx Restricted character set ,
.Nm
reports an internal server error and exits without doing anything.
+.It Pa /man/header.html
+An optional file containing static HTML code to be inserted right
+after opening the <BODY> element.
+.It Pa /man/footer.html
+An optional file containing static HTML code to be inserted right
+before closing the <BODY> element.
.It Pa /man/OpenBSD-current/man1/mandoc.1
An example
.Xr mdoc 7
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