RE: [hobbit] Problem with some hobbit manpages

[Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant (at) steria.com>]

> > I'm not allowed to access any hobbit manpage whose name 
> > include "cgi" 
> > (for example bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html); it results in

> It's Apache that sees the ".cgi" in the filename and mistakes 
> it for a CGI script.

> > What can I change besides adding "Options ExecCGI" for my 
> > /hobbit/ alias ?

> Dont do that - it will try to run the man-page as a program, 
> instead of showing it.
> 
> I had this problem on one server, and fixed it a while back. 
> I'm not quite sure what I did, but it was probably just 
> finding the line
> 
>    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> 
> in the Apache config, and removing it. However, this does it 
> on a system-wide basis, so if you have CGI scripts enabled 
> and allow your users to use CGI by creating files named 
> "someting.cgi", then you probably don't want to do that.

As we have some .cgi scripts running, I prefer using man2html.

I've modified $BBHOME/www/help/manpages/index.html like this :

<a href="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?bb-hostsvc.cgi">

instead of

<a href="man1/bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html">

Maybe you could modify the configure script to ask if man2html is installed,
and generate $BBHOME/www/help/manpages/index.html considering the answer ?

Regards,

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Frédéric Mangeant