Cumulus Support

Hi Guys,

First off, great software, excellent piece of work!!

I have poured over this forum, the wiki and the net looking for a solution, so close, yet so far. I'm fairy tech savvy (i thought) though haven't got much experience with web sites.

I have a "easy weather" style device connected via USB to a 2008R2 Server with IIS installed.
The issue is, Cumulus seems to be setup (and the majority of its users) via using external web servers so that one can FTP the files to it.
Is there a way to not use FTP?

1 - In IIS im creating a new site, and pointing it at the root of "C:\Cumulus\webfiles" but there seems to be no default.htm / index.htm ?

2 - Am i meant to copy the files to "C:\inetpub\wwwroot".. if so, then how does cumulus know to update it?

3 - I'm thinking i could use cumulus to FTP the files to the web server on itself (localhost) but this seems messy.

Any thoughts, assistance or pointed to documentation would be highly appreciated. Spent hours on this one and feel this is the hump. Once i have something working, cant wait to develop some cools pages, apps, integration!

Michael

I think many people are using Cumulus in this way - I do!

Just disable the FTP functions in Cumulus and then specify the files you want processed on the files tab, but just use a local file path as the destination, and do not tick the FTP box.

The only problem is if your site has lots of pages that need processing, you may run out of slots. You may want to consider using PHP or client side Ajax to limit the 'upload' to a single variable file.

The graphs and images have their own destination path you can configure (iirc - doing this from memory now)

The files in 'webfiles' are supposed to be copied to the web server. But there's no reason I can think of that you can't use that as the root of the web site instead. You can get Cumulus to copy files instead of using FTP by listing the files on the 'files' tab of the internet settings. Instructions for all of this are in the help ('Creating a web site' and the 'help button on the internet settings) and in the wiki.

I should really do a FAQ for this, it gets asked so often. It would be good if someone who had already done it would write an article for the wiki, but only a few people are interested in helping out with the documentation. Maybe this doesn't actually merit an article in the wiki anyway, it's quite straightforward and documented in the help.

mcrossley wrote:The only problem is if your site has lots of pages that need processing, you may run out of slots.

Don't forget that there's a hack to add a further 10 slots by editing cumulus.ini.

And I didn't mean you when I was talking about a wiki article; you've done quite enough already!