Mystery solved! Thanks, Matthew

I've started issue #137 <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/137> to
track it.

-tk

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:50 PM, mwall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 4:47:09 PM UTC-4, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> blame it on more redhat-ification (and disregard for users) of debian.
>
> in debian 7 and earlier, DocumentRoot was /var/www
>
> in debian 8, DocumentRoot is /var/www/html
>
> in redhat and suse, DocumentRoot has been /var/www/html for quite some time
>
> there are at least two solutions:
>
> a) modify HTML_ROOT in weewx.conf:
>
> sudo sed -i -e 's%HTML_ROOT =.*%HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx%'
> /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>
> b) create a symlink to the weewx report directory:
>
> sudo ln -s ../weewx /var/www/html
>
> i tend to prefer the latter, especially for systems such as rpi where the
> weewx reports are on a tmpfs to minimize sd card wear.
>
> i have not yet figured out a solution for the weewx .deb package that will
> work out-of-the-box with pre deb8 and post deb8 systems.  it would be nice
> if it worked with lighthttpd and nginx web servers as well as apache.
>
> m
>
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