I am not an apache expert either, but from what I can tell, the problem is
that the weewx Debian installs sets HTML_ROOT incorrectly. It's being set
to /var/www, when it should be /var/www/html.
Because of this, the HTML files are being put in a directory that is not
accessible to the Apache server, at least not without modifying its
configuration file.
Try going into /etc/weewx/weewx.conf and changing the lines
# Where the generated reports should go, relative to WEEWX_ROOT
HTML_ROOT = /var/www/weewx
to
# Where the generated reports should go, relative to WEEWX_ROOT
HTML_ROOT = /var/www/weewx/html
then restart weewx.
If my diagnosis is correct, I'm amazed that this problem has been sitting
here all this time. Perhaps Apache changed the default DocumentRoot
recently?
-tk
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Vlad Rafeev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vince, thank you for clearing this out. I think your great explanation
> deserves to be included in the documentation. Right now it feels like
> everything should work out of the box, which is clearly not the case.
>
>
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> Влад Рафеев
> http://dandaka.com/
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:13 PM, vince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The alternate solution is for you to edit weewx.conf to have it save its
>> files in the place the webserver expects things.
>>
>> The underlying issues are:
>>
>> - there are lots of webservers to pick from, they pick different
>> locations for document root
>> - operating systems differ in where they set the webserver document
>> root
>> - 'versions' of a particular operating system also can change where
>> they set this
>>
>> So weewx can't possibly keep track of this, there are too many
>> ever-changing upstream providers of software.
>>
>>
>> The user/admin 'must' have enough knowledge to know how to get the files
>> weewx generates into
>>
>> the place 'they' want them to appear when viewed from a web browser.
>> There is no one-true-answer.
>>
>>
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