No, assuming it has the right permissions, WeeWX will create whatever
folder HTML_ROOT points to, such as /home/weewx/public_html, or
/var/www/html

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 6:35 PM Scott Grayban <[email protected]> wrote:

> You are missing Apache2
>
> apt install apache2
>
> The install will create the missing folders that weewx requires to
> generate the html and graphics.
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 11:52:15 AM UTC-8, David Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I hope someone is able to help me.
>>
>> I have been running WEEWX on a RaspberryPi for 5-6 years but
>> unfortunately it recently stopped running.
>>
>> I rebooted the Pi with no success so I surmised the SD card had failed
>> and decided to re-install using a new card.
>>
>> When I first installed WEEWX I recall it being quite straightforward, I'm
>> no expert, but this time I have failed miserably.
>>
>> I have tried two ways:
>>
>> Firstly using the method *http://www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm
>> <http://www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm>* *(eg: *sudo apt-get install
>> weewx)
>>
>> Secondly using *sudo ./setup.py install*
>>
>> for the 2nd method I downloaded the *weewx-3.8.2.tar.gz * I did download
>> the *weewx_3.8.2-1_all.deb file *at first but could not unpack it.
>>
>> Here is the *syslog* output
>>
>> *pi@weewx*:*/home/weewx-3.8.2 $* sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
>>
>> Jan 28 19:41:31 weewx vncserver-x11[376]: AgentInitCheck: agent comms
>> failure
>>
>> Jan 28 19:41:36 weewx vncserver-x11[376]: AgentInitCheck: no response
>> from agent
>>
>> Jan 28 19:41:41 weewx vncserver-x11[376]: AgentInitCheck: agent comms
>> failure
>>
>>
>> Also there is no *public_html* folder or *index .html* file
>>
>>
>> You've probably guessed I'm a novice but I was successful all those years
>> ago, I just cannot remember what I did.
>>
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
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