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I am following the advice in What is the best way to learn how to use Ubuntu with terminal? Specifically at how to view the man pages in a web browser.

I followed the advice in How do I make man pages open in a web browser? and used

man -H[browser] <command> (e.g. man -Hfirefox man)

(after installing groff) but it doesn't hyperlink to related commands.

The original article mentions the commands have hyperlinks to other commands using man2page. I apt-get install man2html and then navigate to the page mentioned at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html When I navigate to the page, I get

The requested URL /cgi-bin/man/man2html was not found on this server.

I restarted the Apache2 server that is installed with Ubuntu (and it works with the default page at http://localhost/).

I am using man2html man-1.6g, Apache 2.4.10, and Ubuntu 14.10

How do I get man2html pages to show in the browser?

Update

I found an answer on the Ubuntu forums and posted it below with a link to the forum post. It works for me and I hope it is useful to others.

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I found this answer on the forums:

sudo a2enmod cgid

sudo service apache2 restart

Because man2html is a CGI script, Apache2 needs the module mod_cgid enabled to serve the contents of the page. It was split into two binaries: one the html converter and the other the CGI interface.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2199030

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