Cumulus Support

Hi,

I am a new user of Cumulus. I now wish to create a web page. I have followed the Internet Settings page and think I have everything set correctly.

I have checked my website and all the files that should be loaded to it seem to be there.

However, it is a simple thing that is defeating me. I cannot see what the URL should be. I am used to files ending .htm or .html. None of the files seem to be an active URL.

How do I get the browser to show the cumulus web page, please?

Regards

Howard Neil

The files which end in .htm are automatically uploaded by Cumulus, e.g. index.htm, today.htm, etc. If you have made the required configuration changes in Cumulus, and the files are not appearing on your web site, then you have probably entered the wrong details in Cumulus. Turn on the Cumulus ftp logging, then after an upload should have taken place according to the interval that you have set, attach the ftplog.txt file from the Cumulus installation directory to a reply here. Please also include a screen shot of your Cumulus internet settings screen. A link to your web site might also be useful.

Thank you very much for the very swift reply. I attach the log file and screen dump of my internet settings window as requested.

My weather site URL is http://www.hneil.plus.com/weather.html

I hope you can see the (probably very silly) mistake I have made. My excuse is that Cumulus is such a large step up from the software I was using. It is like stepping off a bike and getting into a modern car.

Regards

Howard Neil

You're getting timeouts - no response from the ftp server for certain actions. This can often be caused by firewalls; you've set 'use active FTP mode', you might find it works OK with that unset.

That is great. Thank you very much, it is now working.

Is there a way that I could insert the buttons into the index page, so that users can return to the rest of my site, please? It would also be nice to add some words to it.

Regards

Howard

You can modify the standard pages by editing the 'template' files in the Cumulus web folder. See the wiki for more details - http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Customised_templates

Great. Thank you very much for your help.

Hi,
Your "Weathernow" button is pointing to your local index.htm [url]file:///D:/Cumulus/web/index.htm[/url] !

Thank you very much for letting me know. I have been playing around with the settings this morning as I would have liked to have got my main buttons on the Cumulus page. I have now reset the pointer on the now button for all pages that show it and think I will probably settle for putting a notice on the Cumulus page telling people to use the back button to return to the main site, if they wish.

Anyway, thank you once again for letting me know. It is comforting to see others checking what I have done.

I think if you are on the Brecon Beacons you have your Longitude set incorrectly unless they have moved out into the North Sea!!

You are West of the meridian not East.

Hi Water01,

You are so right. Well spotted and thank you very much. I have now corrected it.

I thought the water had been a little deep lately

Regards

Howard Neil

Could someone please give me a little HTML guidance?

I am working on the Cumulus page to make a couple of small alterations. Using Notepad, I have changed some of the wording without trouble.

However, I am trying to create a link back to my main website and am having some difficulty. I now have the words "click here" on which I wish to create a hyperlink to my main URL. I have tried using an HTML editor (Mozilla Seamonkey) but that throws out the rest of the page. The Cumulus Wiki did warn that such things could happen and I should stick to a text editor. Unfortunately my HTML skills are not good enough to create the hyperlink in Notepad.

Can someone either advise me how to do this or provide a link to some instructions?

Regards

Howard Neil

You need something like... or if the link is on the same website

Thank you very much. I will try it shortly and report back.

Regards

Howard Neil

Hi Mcrossley,

It hasn't quite worked, I'm afraid. The "click here" has concatenated with the following code. Here is the relevant section of code. Could you (or anyone else) please see where I have gone wrong?

<p>Welcome to <#longlocation>. </p>
<p>The weather station in use is the Oregon WMR 88, and these pages are updated
every <#interval> minutes. The meteorological day used at this station ends at
<#rollovertime>.</p>
<p>These pages are updated every 5 minutes. If this page is not showing the current time, update the page by pressing F5 on your keyboard. If you wish to return to my main site, please use your browser back arrow or <a href="http://www.hneil.plus.com/index.html>Click here</a></p>
<p>Forecast: <#forecast></p>
<table style="width:100%;border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;" >
<caption>Conditions at local time <#time></caption>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" class="tableseparator_temp">Temperature and Humidity </td>
</tr>
<tr class="td_temperature_data">
<td>Temperature</td>
<td><#temp>&nbsp;<#tempunit></td>
<td>Dew&nbsp;Point </td>
<td><#dew>&nbsp;<#tempunit></td>
</tr>

Regards

Howard Neil