install man pages in HTML format and show them via Apache

['chris']

hi

is it any way to install man pages in HTML format and show them via Apache ?
I have Debian Sarge.

kind regards
chris

[Pradeep_29]

You can follow this steps,

man command >command.txt

The above command produces non stop output of man. Create a simple html page calling this file in HTML body. Man pages under /usr/share/man are compressed files. You can also do gzcat /usr/share/man/command files to view the actual file. But the format is different.

Create a HTML page placing all commands and use href to reference to these man files.

I would like to know if there is any direct method for this.

And If I am in your place, i would place PDF file containing all HP-UX commands and reference this file. There is PDF file which has all commands.

Thx,
Pradeep.

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

'man2html' is your friend:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/man2html

[Gopi Sekar]

as stuart mentioned, convert man pages to html using man2html.

Usage is: man2html

remember, the man page file has to be gunziped before feeding on to man2html.man2html can also do multiple files at a time.

if you do not want to do this, you can try accessing the man pages online, check this link: http://linux.ctyme.com/ there are lot more sites like this (eg: linux documentation project http://www.tldp.org/) which allows you to download the html-ized man pages.

Then its all matter of copying the html files to a particular directory in apache (/var/www/html) and accessing them through browser.

Regards,
Gopi

['chris']

thanks,

# apt-get install apache man2html

simply point your browser to this URL:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html

and it works excellent !

greetings
chris

[Mike Stroyan]

If you are using debian you should also have a look at 'apt-get dwww'. It makes several documentation formats viewable with a web browser at http://localhost/dwww/ .

[Guru Dutta]

There is a man2html tool which could be of use to you