Problems setting up/using dwww

I have installed dwww and I am able to display the home page ("ubuntudesktop/dwww"). When I try to access specific documents most of the time an error is displayed. Example trying to access bc man page displays "The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/man/man1/bc.1.gz was not found on this server.". From the Debian Documentation Menu , when I try to access the "install-docs Manual" I get the following error "The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/doc-base/install-docs.html was not found on this server.". I haven't been able to find documentation that helps me fix the problem. Any suggestions on how to get dwww too to work correctly would be greatly appreciated.

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The workaround solution for this problem can be found in the bug-report for the issue.

As posted by user rememberthemer:

I've had the same issue and have found the solution.

The cgi module in apache is not enabled by default or is improperly enabled.

Enabling cgi resolves this issue.

You can use the apache tools:

sudo a2enmod cgi

sudo service apache2 restart

This really should be enabled by default - anyone installing dwww will expect it to work.

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