Maybe best is to illustrate my setup with the Linux commands to create it
(in reality I didi it somehow different because differen hosts are
involved):
WEEWX_ROOT=~/weewx-debug
mkdir $WEEWX_ROOT
cd $WEEWX_ROOT
(cd /; tar zcvf - usr/share/weewx)|tar zxvf -
(cd /; tar zcvf - etc/weewx)|tar zxvf -
mkdir -p var/www/html/weewx
mkdir -p var/lib/weewx
cp /var/lib/weewx/*.sdb var/lib/weewx
Within etc/weewx/weewx.conf I modified
WEEWX_ROOT = /home/MyHome/weewx-debug
...
SQLITE_ROOT = /home/MyHome/weewx-debug/var/lib/weewx
I enabled debug = 1
I did NOT change SKIN_ROOT and HTML_ROOT since the (maybe outdated)
comments from weewx.conf say
# Where the skins reside, relative to WEEWX_ROOT
SKIN_ROOT = /etc/weewx/skins
# Where the generated reports should go, relative to WEEWX_ROOT
HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx
Maybe simply those comments are misleading? For my debugging I simply
created symbolic links for skins and www. Probabely I should have changed
SKIN_ROOT and HTML_ROOT instead? Just tested it right now - and YES it
worked. Thus only the comments are wrong. Setting
SKIN_ROOT = /home/MyHome/weewx-debug/etc/weewx/skins
HTML_ROOT = /home/MyHome/weewx-debug/var/www/html/weewx
works fine without additional symbolic links!
>From my perspective this is better as compared to the (hidden) use of
WEEWX_ROOT. Thus maybe one only should correct the misleading comments
within default weewx.conf?
Regards, Michael
Tom Hogland schrieb am Samstag, 6. Januar 2024 um 02:35:53 UTC+1:
> Michael -
>
> WEEWX_ROOT is the root folder under which all the other folders live (such
> as HTML_ROOT or SKIN_ROOT). My WEEWX_ROOT is /, SKIN_ROOT is
> /etc/weewx/skins and HTML_ROOT is /var/www/html/weewx. Your skins would be
> in WEEWX_ROOT/SKIN_ROOT and your weather files will generate into
> WEEWX_ROOT/HTML_ROOT.
>
> What do you have SKIN_ROOT and HTML_ROOT set to? And do those folders
> exist within the WEEWX_ROOT folder you created?
>
> Tom
>
> On Friday, January 5, 2024 at 2:56:29 PM UTC-9 Tom Keffer wrote:
>
>> Could you try again? I don't understand the point you are making.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 7:59 AM 'Michael Waldor' via weewx-user <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe my understanding of WEEWX_ROOT is wrong. But partly it worked thus
>>> I assume it is not working everywhere. I did set WEEWX_ROOT within
>>> weewx.conf onto some directory and copied a full weewx 4.6.2 installation
>>> over there. But the following folders were not found
>>>
>>> WEEWX_ROOT/etc/weewx/skins
>>> WEEWX_ROOT/var/www/html/weewx
>>>
>>> I could fix that by introducing proper links like e.g.
>>> mkdir /etc/weewx
>>> cd !$
>>> ln -s WEEWX_ROOT/etc/weewx/skin
>>> cd /var
>>> ln -s WEEWX_ROOT/var/www
>>>
>>> It's really a minor issue, but maybe it should be fixed sometimes.
>>>
>>> Regards, Michael
>>>
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