DWWW-CONVERT(8) Debian DWWW-CONVERT(8)
NAME
dwww-convert - convert files to HTML for dwww
SYNOPSIS
dwww-convert [--no-path-info] type location
DESCRIPTION
dwww-convert is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-
line documentation on a Debian system via WWW. dwww-convert converts
documentation to HTML so that it can be viewed with a WWW browser.
dwww-convert is usually run by the WWW server, but can also be run by
hand.
The type argument gives the type of the file, one of:
file An arbitrary file; the type is guessed using simple heuristics
based on the filename.
dir A directory. If the directory contains the file index.html or
index.htm that file will be returned. Otherwise, A listing of the
files in the directory is generated.
html An HTML file. The file is returned as is.
man A manual page. The location is the pathname of the nroff source
file.
runman A manual page. The location is the name of the manual page and
its section, separated by a slash. For example, the location
would be intro/1 to refer to the intro(1) manual page.
info An Info file.
text A plain text file (using the ISO-8859-1 character set).
An unknown file type is treated as text.
The location argument gives the filename of the file. The name must be
complete, i.e., it must start at the root directory (/). The name must
not contain any symbolic links (cf. realpath(1)). The file must be lo-
cated in or below a directory that has been allowed by the system admin-
istrator; see dwww(7) for more info.
The file may be compressed with gzip(1) or bzip2(1). It is uncompressed
automatically and invisibly. Compression is indicated by a filename
that ends in `.gz' or `.bz2'.
OPTIONS
--no-path-info
Internal option used by the dwww's CGI script to let dwww-convert
know, that the arguments following the option do not come from
the PATH_INFO variable, but from the QUERY_STRING.
FILES
/etc/dwww/dwww.conf
Configuration file for dwww. See dwww(7) for more information.
SEE ALSO
dwww(7), dwww-txt2html(8), dwww-build(8), dwww-cache(8).
AUTHOR
Lars Wirzenius. Modified by Robert Luberda.
See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff.
dwww 1.11.1 February 15th, 2009 DWWW-CONVERT(8)
Generated by dwww version 1.16 on Tue Dec 16 02:55:30 CET 2025.