Under what user ID are you running weewx? I install from the debian package on a Raspberry Pi, and have to work around some permission issues related to running non-root. IIRC, there are two: * weewx can’t create the PID file in /var/run, causing it to exit almost immediately. My hack is putting lines in the startup script (actually in /etc/defaults/weewx) to touch /var/run/weewx.pid and to chown that file to the weewx user ID. * weewx can’t create the html, etc. files because it can’t write to /var/www/html. Solution is to manually create weewx's html directory and make that directory owned by the weewx user ID.
-Les > On 1 Jan 2018, at 9:25, Cycle London <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, I'm a friend of UNIX. 30 years of administering first Solaris, then > RHEL and Slackware, FreeBSD, HP-UX and SCO UNIX. But zero knowledge of > Python, so completely unable to troubleshoot this. And most of my days now > are taken up with CentOS and RHEL, and I don't use apache2. > > Anyway, the system now appears to be running. > > root@weather:~# ps -ef | grep weather > avahi 322 1 0 2017 ? 00:00:17 avahi-daemon: running > [weather.local] > > Still nothing in the HTML_ROOT however. That's fine I guess since it's > aliasing to /home/weewx/public_html but what should the permissions be on > that directory? > > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 1 17:20 public_html > > And lynx localhost/weewx` still returns a 404 (with nothing in the httpd log > but just that: 404). > > Trying to hit the Pi on http from my Mac also returns a 404, which isn't > anything to do with name resolution as the Pi is in DNS and I can ping it on > its FQDN. > > Stumped, now. > > > On 1 January 2018 at 15:45, mwall <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 9:33:55 AM UTC-5, Cycle London wrote: > Now I seem to have broken the entire thing. I decided to try the python > installation method, so ran `apt-get remove weewx` and then downloaded the > tarball to try a manual installation. > > This time, there is content in /var/www/html but hardly anything (except > user) under /usr/share/weewx. Everything is under /home but even when I > place the new driver into /usr/share/weewx/user and modify the configuration > file, I still get... > > welcome to "unix is user-friendly, it is just picky about who its friends are" > > there are a few things you should understand about debian linux and about > python. > > 1) setup.py and apt-get are not compatible > > you really should use one or the other. the weewx wiki has instructions > about how to change from one to the other. > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/How%20to%20convert%20from%20setup.py%20install%20to%20debian%20install > > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/How%20to%20convert%20from%20setup.py%20install%20to%20debian%20install> > > 2) how to use apt-get > > apt-get install weewx > apt-get remove weewx > apt-get purge weewx > > install does both initial installation as well as updates (but not upgrades) > > three different commands which do three different things. remove does not > destroy any configuration files, especially not any that you have modified. > it also does not remove any debconf values. > > purge deletes all configuration files and debconf values. it does not touch > any weewx data (nominally /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb) > > for the state diagrams, see: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#maintainer-script-flowcharts > <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#maintainer-script-flowcharts> > > we try to test installer stuff, but as you can see the surface area for > testing is massive. so if you can clarify any procedures you make that > result in unexpected results, that makes it more likely that someone will fix > it. > > 3) python coders are lazy, and that is a good thing > > weewx does not create a database until it has to use it > > weewx does not create the html directory or any files in that directory until > it has something to write. in a default installation, that means you will > not see anything until after the first archive interval (nominally 5 minutes, > but it depends on your configuration). > > 4) you almost never need to reinstall the operating system. linux is not > windows, no matter how much certain redhat employees would like to make it so. > > hope that helps! > > m > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe>. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
