-.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.16 2016/03/19 13:29:22 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.20 2016/07/11 22:48:37 schwarze Exp $
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 19 2016 $
+.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
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
.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.
.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