Re: Help with setting up man.cgi with nginx

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Aisha,

Aisha Tammy wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:26:36AM -0500:

> I finally got it working *cries in lost sanity*...
> 
> Turns out I (or nginx or whatever) was not passing the PATH_INFO
> fastcgi parameter.

Oh, that does indeed explain why you always got the start page and
the two links on the start page only brought you back to the start
page.

So, are you saying that with your new configuration,

  http://localhost/ls.1

and the like now work as expected?

If so, does

  http://localhost/?query=ls

work, too?  If not, i suspect you may need to pass QUERY_STRING
in the same way as you pass PATH_INFO, see

  https://man.openbsd.org/man.cgi.8#ENVIRONMENT

for details.  If it already works right now, then maybe nginx passes
QUERY_STRING by default - though i don't quite see why it would
pass QUERY_STRING by default but not PATH_INFO.  That would feel
like an odd choice of defaults to me.

> Obscure chases through the internet led me to the final nginx.conf
> configuration which finally made it work...
> Please don't ask me on how this works, it's dangerous forbidden dark arts
> of nginx magic.

Don't worry, i won't ask.  :-)

(But do consider that running a webserver on the Internet with a
 configuration you don't understand is seriously dangerous.
 So you should ask yourself how your server works, until you
 understand it, or use something else that you do understand.)

> This was my first ever use of nginx, all my other thingies
> are on obsd httpd.
> 
> Now to see how to work a chroot with nginx and fcgiwrap.
> #nginx irc users told me that this is stupid

What is stupid?  Running man.cgi(8) at all?  Or running it on Linux?
or running it on nginx?  Or ...?

> and that this is an OS thing and not an application thing -.-

Which aspect of all this is an OS thing, and what does "an application
thing" mean?  I don't think i understand what you are tryong to say
with this sentence.

> , so that was fun.

In that case, enjoy!  ;-/
  Ingo
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