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blank templates after update ?

Post by Paul-G0HWC »

Hi all,

After a recent update of Cumulus to build 1099 some of my pages on the website have gone to white
pages ? I guess I did something wrong in the update process. I can still see all my custom templates in
c:\cumulus\web

The problem is, its been so long since I set up Cumulus I have forgotton so much
and searching the Wiki has not found my problem.

I hope its just a tick of a box to put it all back ?

I still can access my Steel seris gauges page:
http://www.g0hwc.com/weather/gauges-ss.htm

but all the other pages that have updating data are just white blank.

I look forward to some help. :clap:

Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy new year

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Re: blank templates after update ?

Post by water01 »

Think you missed this part about UTF-8 in build 1093.
Build 1093 of version 1.9.4 is now available from the downloads page.

This version has an option to encode web pages using UTF-8. The files tab of the internet setting has a checkbox for each 'extra' file to allow UTF-8 enocding to be selected. The setting is 'off' by default. If you are using more than 10 extra files by editing cumulus.ini, you can turn on UTF-8 encoding for those by using a similar method to the existing settings for those extra files. E.g. setting ExtraUTF42=1 would turn on UTF-8 encoding for extra file number 42.

I have also changed the standard web pages so that they are HTML 5 compliant, and specify a UTF-8 charset. There is a separate UTF-8 option for the standard files ("UTF-8 Encode" in the "Web settings" box on the "Sites/Options" tab on the Internet Settings screen), and this is 'on' by default (as the standard files now require it). If you have your own modified versions of the standard files (and therefore choose the option not to install the web page templates when you install a new version of Cumulus), then you will need to turn this option off, unless you convert your pages to use UTF-8.

The dashboard.js file has changed (for a couple of CSS changes required for HTML5 compliance), so if you use the standard gauges web page, you will need to FTP the modified dashboard.js file from the Cumulus webfiles directory to the dbimages directory on your web site. You may need to force a refresh in your browser to get it to pick up the new file. Without this change, some of the gauges will not be centered.
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Re: blank templates after update ?

Post by Paul-G0HWC »

Many thanks for that Walter,

Im not sure how i missed that when I did the update ?
Somehow I guessed it would just be a check or un check a box :)

Thanks again
Paul "Clacton Weather"
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