Website build problem

[falkunmalti]

HI PaulMy

Thanks for this very detailed reply which helps me to understand better how CumulusMX works. I actually manually Ftp'd the xxxT files to the website just in case (!). It did not seem right. Anyway, I am attaching a text file with my webFTP settings. The check marks did not render in the text file so they are all checked except Active FTP mode, Use SSL for FTP, Delete before upload, UTF encoding. It was easier doing it this way because of the large number of settings. I am also attaching a text file with my website settings.

I hope this will provide the information necessary to figure out my problem!

[PaulMy]

I don't know anything about Pi and thought the actual Cumulus and FTP settings would be somewhat similar to PC set up.
The only difference I have in my settings is that I have ticked UTF-8 encoding. Not sure if using Active FTP mode or FTP rename would make any difference as not familiar with that at all.

You had provided a snipped of the FTP log, are you still getting those errors?

I presume at this point you are still just trying to get your standard Cumulus template files and gauges to work which I think you said had worked. Could you however, for a test, add in the Extra Web Files section a file to just FTP i.e. realtime.txt from your CumulusMX folder and set it at realtime interval so you can quickly see if it is working. Also turn on FTP logging and see what it says after the upload interval.

I don't recall you mentioning anything about what is in your MXDiags file. Perhaps in Station settings tick Data logging and between FTP logging and MXdiags see what is or insn't occurring - just suggesting anything that comes to my mind...


p.s. where are you located?

Enjoy,
Paul

[falkunmalti]

Hi
The installation on the pi is exactly the same as on windows and you will recall that prior to my computer crash, this did work. I checked the Mdiags file and it complains about the same thing as ftplog.txt, which is that realtime.txt and realtimegauges.txt are not found but they are there because I can see them! I am getting somewhere though. I unchecked ftp rename and now cumulus is depositing json files in /web and creating the htm files. So I manually uploaded the files and the website works but it does not update. The files in the local /web directory are not updating. You can check www.laferla.ca/weather and it shows weather for 16:45 whereas the time now is 17:36.

I am attaching a snippet from mdiags. Note the error message. It says that "weather/realtime.txt: no such file or directory. This implies that it cannot find the website to upload the file to. What do you think?

I am located in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

[mcrossley]

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Error uploading web/realtimegauges.txt to ...

Shouldn't the source file be web/realtimegaugesT.txt ?

[freddie]

It says that "weather/realtime.txt: no such file or directory. This implies that it cannot find the website to upload the file to. What do you think?

What it is saying is that the directory you are placed in when you log on with FTP does not contain a directory called weather. You could try logging on manually with a terminal window and see where you are placed when you log on by using the "PWD" command. You may well be being placed in the directory above where you think you are.

[falkunmalti]

Thanks Mark for your intervention. I was wondering why the xxxT files were not being used at all. As far as I know, all this happened automatically and the local /web directory does have the xxxT files in there but cumulus is attempting to upload the different files. And what about realtime.txt. The file does exist in the main Cumulus directory but I still get the error message.

[PaulMy]

I was away for a while, and see some success...
http://www.laferla.ca/weather/realtime.txt
http://www.laferla.ca/weather/realtimegauges.txt
both being updated!

Can't see anything yet with http://www.laferla.ca/weather/index.htm
so some more work to be done.

Enjoy,
Paul

[falkunmalti]

HI Paul

Good progress. I discovered that the directory was indeed wrong. After checking with my mail server guy, the top level directory is www.laferla.ca so I put www.laferla.ca/weather as the directory and things seem to be uploading now. Should be straightforward now. I'll post results.

[falkunmalti]

Hi Paul

Well all is working well now. I would like to offer my deepest gratitude to you and others on the forum who offered tips to get me going. Too often, it takes a group effort to conclude something. I have learned a great deal during these few days. A little cleanup for the webpages now and I want to get the steelseries gauges working. Once again, thanks to all.

A final comment. I was a bit worried about the future of Cumulus when Steve decided to call it quits. Thanks to you Mark for taking up the banner and to allow Cumulus to continue to grow.

Joe

[PaulMy]

You're very welcome, and great to seeing things current again!

Yes you need to look at the gauges and the trends pages. I can't think of anything at the moment other than to check your settings, and that you successfully uploaded all the contends of CumulusMX\webfiles folder.

Enjoy,
Paul

[falkunmalti]

Hi Paul
Yes I notice that the gauges and trends pages are not populating. I have checked that the necessary files are indeed on the website and when I open trends.htm and gauges.htm manually all I get is the template stuff with no values filled in. I am going to do some more checks but I likely will come up empty. If so I will star another thread explaining the issue.

[falkunmalti]

Problem fixed as you can see. Next I will be installing the steelseries gauges.

[riyarathi]

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