The first thing you need to grasp is that your web server is NOT part of weewx!!
Weewx will put your webpages wherever you tell it to - on the same machine or a remote machine. The web server and it's permissions and access are outside the realms of weewx!! You can either have weewx PUT the generated pages WITHIN your web server page hierarchy - or you can leave the pages in /home/weewx/public_html and direct your web server to access them at that location (by using a symlink or similar). You can run apache or lighttpd on the same machine as weewx, on a separate machine on your local network, or even hosted at a remote web hosting site - the choice is yours!! All that weewx needs to know is where to build the pages, and where to transfer them to if necessary. Access to the generated pages is under the control of the web server - a server for which you are the administrator or a remotely hosted server - the choice is yours. On Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:10:00 UTC+3, Tim Phillips wrote: > Is it a good idea to change the default port for the Weewx server on my Pi > from 80 to something else that's not so common? I'd like to be able to > access my weather station feed over from WAN but am hesitant to just port > forward my Pi's IP address out into the wild on port 80. I have a password > set for the Pi login already. On top of that, if it's HTTP, is the login > password being sent in plain text over the connection? Do I understand that > correctly? If somebody was snooping wouldn't they see it? > > It's becoming increasingly worrisome all of these internet of things (IoT) > devices are lacking decent security, so I've been focused on securing my IP > camera's, NAS boxes, etc, lately. > > My understanding of how my Weewx on my Pi is: > > Weewx running as a daemon (service/background process). > Apache2 is the web server so a user can access the Weewx service (daemon) > from a browser on LAN/WAN (if port forwarded). > - Apache2 runs in the background and is the "gatekeeper" to the > services that request a browser-based information request. > - Services get access *through *the Apache server to the > destination port it's assigned to. In Weewx's case it's "/weewx". > > BUT, if the port to Apache is 80, and that directs to Weewx, then how > would I set up multiple WAN access, say if I had a webcam service running > on the same Pi? > > Hope *some *of that made some sense... > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
