I’ve reworked the Apache setup stanza in the User’s Guide as well as the web server wiki page to remove the disconnect between the two documents. Subject to the rigours of the WeeWX Documentation Review Committee the revised User’s Guide should appear in the next release.
Gary On Friday, 6 August 2021 at 02:25:00 UTC+10 vince wrote: > Some of the documentation has been around for years and might have been > created versus previous versions of operating systems or webserver software. > > Basically you need to copy the file into the conf.d directory for your > version of apache. Unfortunately that path might be different for > varying operating systems and/or apache versions, so you do need to line > things up with whatever your operating systems instance of apache expects. > You can't break anything either way. Just match what your os expects. > > On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 10:55:24 AM UTC-7 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Well I had a similar problem and what lang... posted about having have >> the file "weewx.conf" in "/etc/apache2/conf-enabled/" folder turned out to >> be the trick. Note this is different than what the Users Guide has which >> is sudo cp util/apache/conf.d/weewx.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d So should >> it be sudo cp util/apache/conf.d/weewx.conf >> /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/weewx.conf instead??? And did I screw up conf.d >> when I did the copy paste from the users guide? Or did I just add a unused >> file to /etc/apache2/ ? >> >> On Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 10:46:29 AM UTC-6 vince wrote: >> >>> On Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 1:25:05 AM UTC-7 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> i reinstalled all of them ... then i checked the folders on the spot >>>> and checked their contents. without success! I give up. >>>> >>>> vince schrieb am Samstag, 29. Mai 2021 um 03:45:52 UTC+2: >>>> >>>>> See if the FAQ >>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/faq-web-pages-not-appearing> helps >>>>> any. >>>>> >>>>> You've established weewx is generating files. You haven't pinned down >>>>> whether weewx+apache are in agreement on where the web pages are, nor if >>>>> apache is running at all. >>>>> >>>> >>> I suspect that we have a translation to English problem here. >>> The problem descriptions are so cryptic and short that we cannot >>> determine what you are doing, and you refuse to give us transcripts of what >>> you are seeing. >>> >>> >>> - Try to open http://x.x.x.x in a browser and tell us what Apache >>> responds with >>> - They try to open http://x.x.x.x/weewx and tell us what Apache >>> responds with >>> - (put in the ip address of your webserver above please) >>> >>> >>> Do not say "it didn't work" or "without success". >>> >>> Give us an exact transcript of what the browser returned to you. >>> >>> -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/bd480471-c491-4fec-afec-d12e33b1d9c5n%40googlegroups.com.
