How to read Cisco Documentation CDROM on Linux platform

mount the cisco cdrom ( mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom )
start httpd apache daemon.
define a virtual server by mean of a listen on a port of your choice id:
```
Listen 127.0.0.1:8080
```
You must include a Listen for your virtual servers in your virtual host configuration (specialized file or httpd.conf file); add the following instructions:
```
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
DocumentRoot /mnt/cdrom
AddHandler gunzip .htm
Action gunzip /cgi-bin/CiscoDoc
```

put in your Cgi directory /home/httpd/cgi-bin the following file


#!/bin/sh
#
#
echo Content-type:text/html
echo


FULL_PATH="$DOCUMENT_ROOT""$PATH_INFO"

ROOT_FILE="$DOCUMENT_ROOT""/home/home.htm"

if [ -f "$ROOT_FILE" ]; then

   bunzip2 -t "$FULL_PATH"  1> /dev/null 2>&1

   rc2=$?

   if [ "$rc2" = "0" ]; then
      bunzip2 --stdout "$FULL_PATH"
   else
      gunzip -l "$FULL_PATH"   1> /dev/null 2>&1
      rc=$?

      if [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then
      	gunzip --stdout "$FULL_PATH"
      else
      	cat "$FULL_PATH"
      fi
   fi

else
   echo "<HTML><BODY>"
   echo "<H1>Root file (" $ROOT_FILE ") not present</H1>"
   echo "<H2>May be do you not remember to insert cdrom ? </H2>>"
   echo "</BODY></HTML>"
fi

#echo "<HTML>

Make it executable with the command chmod -c 755 CiscoDoc
Now you can access Cisco Manuals using URL: "http://localhost:8080/home/home.htm"



$Log: ciscodoc.html,v $
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