I thought of that - rsyncing the data over to my production box, but I'm pretty paranoid about having anything experimental on that. I snapshot the hell out of it if I so much as update a Horde module.
Anyway, I've done the proxy thang, so technically, the Pi is now invisible from the outside world - and runs over https, so bonus. Can someone now point me to how to change the appearance of the site, and I'll stop bothering you all? :) On 2 January 2018 at 09:07, Andrew Milner <andrew.s.r.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could always have the web server somewhere other than on the rpi and > then just use weewx/rpi to build pages in public_html (using SQLite as the > database perhaps), and ftp the buil;t pages to your real protected > webserver wherever it may be - on your lan or maybe even on external > servers. This would mean you did not need to protect/open ports/firewall > etc the rpi as it would only ever output to elsewhere and never have to > handle incoming connections. > > > > > > On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 10:58:59 UTC+2, Cycle London wrote: > >> This is incredible - it works. Thank you. Forgetting the soft link from >> the public_html directory. Duh! >> >> Priorities now are : >> >> 1. customization. I want dials rather than a table. Is this in the >> customization guide? >> 2. running proxy so that I don't need to have port number after the URL >> 3. adding my SSL certificates >> 4. securing the installation. The Pi sits on a LAN that also has my >> production Atlassian, MX and horde.org servers on it. So getting >> iptables up and running is a priority. Oh, wait. It's firewalld isn't it? >> Sigh. Something else to learn. Can't wait to retire. :-P >> >> Thank you for all of your help. >> >> On 2 January 2018 at 00:13, Les Niles <nile...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> BTW, I run on mysql but I think there’s also a permission issue in >>> creating the sqlite database file when running non-root, solved by >>> pre-creating the file and setting its ownership. >>> >>> -Les >>> >>> On 1 Jan 2018, at 16:05, Les Niles <nile...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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 <cycle.l...@gmail.com> 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 <mw...@users.sourceforge.net> 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%20fro >>>> m%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 >>>> >>>> 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.co >>>> m/d/topic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/to >>> pic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > 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. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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