Getting My Website to Work

[mjferraro22]

I have been using Cumulus locally for about a year. Once I got the settiongs correct, the program has worked great. I am now trying to get the weather up to my website. I am a novice with website programming. My website host is bluehost.com. My website is http://www.royalmountainresources.com, and the site is set up with wordpress. I have read the support information and got an ftp site set up under my root directory. I set up a file called mooseweather, and everything is copied to that file. I have a screenshot below. It doesn't show the yesterday files on the screen shot, but they are there. I set up the Cumulus program on my computer to upload information to the mooseweather folder, but the connection keeps timing out. Obviously, I have something set up wrong. That's problem number 1. Problem number 2 is I do not know where to set my url address to see the weather information, once I get it uploaded.

Thanks for your help.
Mike Ferraro

[daj]

hi Mike

can you upload a screen shot of the Cumulus Internet settings.

here's a little posting from the wiki on a better way to upload screen shots...http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Screen_capture

[steve]

It looks like you have uploaded the files to /public_ftp/mooseweather and they should be in /public_html/mooseweather. It's a web site you need to set up, not an ftp site.

[daj]

Yes, I agree Steve. hopefully once we see the screen shot we can confirm all the detail but it could be that simple

[mjferraro22]

Here you go. Thanks for your help.

[daj]

I would think that "directory" should be....

/public_html/mooseweather

You will also need to recreate the 'core files' needed by Cumulus in /public_html/mooseweather -- as Steve noted above, you have created these under /public_ftp

A reminder of the core files -- http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Simple_Web ... Core_files

[mjferraro22]

Revised the Cumulus settings. Uploaded the files. Screenshots below. Still getting the FTP Connect Timeout.

[daj]

you certainly have a website now...

http://www.royalmountainresources.com/mooseweather

I assume Cumulus is giving the FTP Timeout message?

Turn on FTP logging in Cumulus. (Click on the Configuration menu within Cumulus and tick the 'FTP Log' menu option)
Force a web update (in the File menu),
then upload the ftplog.txt file for us to have a look

[mjferraro22]

Here you go.

[daj]

is that from the Cumulus folder? (not that I think there are other copies) and you definitely turned on FTP logging?

It's very brief; I would expect much more in the file.

[mjferraro22]

Yes and yes. Here is the realtimeftp file. It has more in it.

[daj]

The FTP log files should have more detail about the files is is trying to upload.

I guess we should look at the debug log

Click on the Configuration menu within Cumulus and tick the 'Debug Log' menu option.
Force a web update
Turn off the Debug Log again
Let's see the debug.log file

I see you are a few versions behind in Cumulus (you are on V1.8.8, Dec 2009) -- I don't believe this is the problem but just worth noting that you should upgrade at some point

[mjferraro22]

First off, thanks for all your help. I am a couple of versions behind, but I did not want to confuse things until I get the site working. Here is the debug log.

[daj]

First off, thanks for all your help.

No problem

Here is the debug log.

you are getting an error
FTP Connect failure - attempt number 2 Error code = 10060

Its a general timeout error so it is not much use!

Lets try something -- in the Internet Settings of Cumulus there is a setting to turn on Active FTP mode. Tick the box and try and update

[mjferraro22]

Did that. Ran both logs. Still got a conect timeout. The ftplog says the same thing. Here is the debug log.