Cumulus on PWS

[George Richardson]

Hello,

I have a Personal Web Site that I would like to add the standard Cumulus Weather page as a sub-page to. I would also like to add the Cumulus Real Time display as a page that can also be reached from my base page rather than drilling down thru Cumulus. I have added a folder named "Cumulus" rather than "Weather". To this folder I have added files and folders per the "Setting up your website" help file.
Would someone please advise me how to accomplish this!

TIA

George

[beteljuice]

Simple HTML George !

On your 'normal' index page add the links:

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<a href="Cumulus/index.htm">My Weather</a>
or
<a href="Cumulus/index.htm" target="_blank">My Weather</a> (opens in a new window)

and the same sort of thing for realtime guages

If you DON'T open Cumulus in a new window, then you would need to add the link:
<a href="../" >Home ::</a>

to all of the Cumulus pages (don't forget we mean the xxxT.htm ones !

[George Richardson]

beteljuice,
Thanks for your reply. HTML is not simple to me even if it should be . If I enter "http://smlweather.com/Photos/Boltek_Bubble.gif" in a browser window, I get a picture I stored in the folder "Photos" on my hosting location. It seems to me that I should be able to get to MY Cumulus web page if I enter "http://smlweather.com/cumulus/index.htm" in a browser window. That is, unless I have messed up in the Configuration - Internet settings.
Any thoughts?
George

[steve]

That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. What have you put for the 'directory' in the internet settings? If just 'cumulus', it may be that you need more than that, i.e. something else on the beginning like 'wwwroot/'. It depends on how your hosting is set up.

[George Richardson]

Steve,
Thanks for hopping in. I'm sure the problem is my ignorance! For the "Directory" I have "http://smlweather.com/cumulus". For the "Web Settings", I have ticked "Auto Update" with an interval of 3 minutes, ticked "Enable Realtime" and "Realtime interval" 5.
My continued thanks.
George

FWIW, I have nothing under Configuration- Internet (Internet Settings) - Files

[steve]

For the "Directory" I have "http://smlweather.com/cumulus".

That will definitely be wrong, however your web space is set up. That's an http URL, which is only of use to a browser (etc). What you need is a path that makes sense to an ftp server. It's possible that smlweather.com/cumulus might do it (that's how my web space works), but as a first guess I would go for just cumulus and hope that works.

[beteljuice]

... It seems to me that I should be able to get to MY Cumulus web page if I enter "http://smlweather.com/cumulus/index.htm" ..

You can quote an absolute address - like that, or you can do shortcuts - I quoted shortcuts, a link reference to the page you are in.

eg. ../ is a shortcut to the directory or folder above, and because a file hasn't been named it will look for index / main / default with extension .htm / .html / .asp / .php / etc.
(I don't know what format your home page is)

BUT you typed /Cumulus, then next posted /cumulus - be careful - they are totally different

BTW - how have you created a site without doing some html - or is it blog / builder style ?

A link would be helpful

[George Richardson]

beteljuice,
Thanks for your continued interest. To try to answer some of your questions, my web site is http://smlweather.com. It is primarily the canned VWS site. I have done some modifications. The Cam pages are mostly mine done with Dreamweaver. The History page is a script someone on http://www.wxforum.net provided. I would like to add the Cumulus display to the mix. I copied the .htm files to the smlweather.com/cumulus location and was able to view a non updating web page. Cumulus seems to be going through the FTP motions but nothing is uploading.

I type slow and its my bedtime so I'll continue this tomorrow.

Thanks again

George

[steve]

Cumulus seems to be going through the FTP motions but nothing is uploading.

This pretty much confirms that you have the path (directory) wrong. You could turn on ftp logging, but that will only confirm the incorrrect path, not tell us what the correct path would be. If you could log in to your ftp server with a graphical ftp client, and show a screen shot of the server directory hierarchy at log in, I should be able to tell you what's needed. Basically, it's the directory path from the point at which you log in, to the cumulus directory that you've created.

[George Richardson]

Steve,

Thanks so much for sticking with me. The required directory was htdocs/cumulus which I found with your helpful hints. There are 2 more steps I will probably need suggestions on. When I drill down to GAUGES, I only get the bottom 5 wind gauges. The top 11 gauges are boxed with descriptions but no graphics. Everything else seems fine so I'm stumped on that.

2nd. Any secrets to CumulusRealtime? That is what I really want to add to my weather web site.

Thanks again

George

[steve]

When I drill down to GAUGES, I only get the bottom 5 wind gauges. The top 11 gauges are boxed with descriptions but no graphics. Everything else seems fine so I'm stumped on that.

You seem not to have created the 'dbimages' directory and uploaded the required contents into it?

2nd. Any secrets to CumulusRealtime? That is what I really want to add to my weather web site.

It's fairly straightforward - hopefully! Just follow the instructions in the readme file. Then create a link to the page from somewhere else on your site. There shouldn't be any problems unless your hosting is a bit non-standard (e.g. doesn't like Silverlight applications or xml files).

[George Richardson]

Steve,
Thanks again. I'll try to leave you alone for a while. I had "dbimages" as a sub-folder to "images" rather than a sub-folder to "cumulus". Again, thanks for your patience.
George

[George Richardson]

Hello Beteljuice,

Well, with your and Steve's help, I have gotten a long way with the integration of Cumulus into my web site. I have the standard Cumulus added and am comfortable that any needed adjustments can be handled. For what its worth, my site is http://smlweather.com/. The Cumulus section can be reached through the "Cumulus Report" link.

I do, however, have 2 related requests for help. 1st, you said to open a new window, the code should be "<a href="Cumulus/index.htm" target="_blank">My Weather</a> (opens in a new window)". I tried this for CumulusRealtime in the form of "<a href="cumulus/CumulusRealtime.html" target="_blank">Cumulus Realtime</a> but it didn't work. I don't know if its syntax or what. 2nd. In the readme text for Cumulus Realtime, Steve says " You can create your own page if you wish, and it should also be possible to embed the application in an existing page - you should be able to work out what to do by studying the supplied html." My goal here is to embed Cumulus Realtime much as this WeatherUnderground compilation is shown on http://smlweather.com/SML-WU-History.php from Lake Weather History.

So, if anyone has embeded Cumulus Realtime in their website, PLEASE share your knowledge!

Thanks

George

[steve]

<a href="cumulus/CumulusRealtime.html" target="_blank">Cumulus Realtime</a>

I don't know why that didn't work - it looks right to me. If you look at the 'cumulus' link at the bottom right hand corner of the standard Cumulus pages, you'll see an example there; and it's working OK on your site. When you say it didn't work, you mean it opened in the same page?

[George Richardson]

Yeah Steve,
When I put that code in , in an attempt to open Realtime in a new window, it failed to execute so I changed it to open in same window. And that works. If it does look right, I'll try again. It wouldn't be the first time in this exercise I've mistyped.
George