On 2016-02-21 15:48, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
Hi Paul -
… But for now, if I click on a command to see its manpage or documentation, I am asked to download the gzipped file.
This sounds like a very old bug I experienced years ago where dwww-convert didn't know about gzipped files. Is there anything to this effect in your /etc/dwww/dwww.conf? Is dwww-index++ being run periodically?
That's the problem with my configuration. There is just index.html, dwww.css, and the PNG of the Debian logo. No hidden files either. There was nothing under ../cgi-bin, since it wasn't there until I created it. Thus, there is no dwww.conf, and dwww-index++ (is that the name of a script?) is nowhere in sight. There is also no cgi code inside the index.html telling me what the script thinks should be handling the ?type=man at the end of the URL.
You might be hitting permission problems between the new symlinked man page directories and where apache2 and dwww is allowed to look.
Or I could be just going up against an ill-equipped documentation system, stripped down by Ubuntu. :-(
cheers, Stewart
Regards Paul