manual pages in browser

manual pages in browser


Author: W. Wade, Hampton
Email: whampton@staffnet.com

System Architecture: All/General
RedHat Release: All/General
FAQ Category: Tips and Tricks
Modification Date: Oct 19, 1998

Question:

How can I display my manaual pages in a browser?  Can I search my manual pages
via my browser?

Answer:

To display your manual pages with a browser, install man2html.  This
sets up a couple of programs in your cgi-bin directory.  If you have
customized apache and you don't have the standard directory, you may 
have to get the tarball and move a few files around....

  /home/httpd/cgi-bin/man2html
                      mansearch
                      mansec
                      manwhatis

To access:  http://localhost/cgi-bin/man2html

Also, if you want to search the manual pages, install glimpse
and make /var/man2html (mkdir /var/man2html).  Then index your 
manual pages by running the following nightly or weekly:

   /usr/sbin/makewhatis 

   /usr/bin/glimpseindex -H /var/man2html /usr/man/man* /usr/X11R6/man/man* \
        /usr/local/man/man* /opt/man/man*

   chmod +r /var/man2html/.glimpse*

References:

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