The current docs for V4.10 as well as 5.0 say that "a *relative *path" for HTML_ROOT or SKIN_ROOT is below WEEWX_ROOT. If you define either as an *absolute* path (i.e. beginning with a "/"), then WEEWX_ROOT is ignored.
On Saturday 6 January 2024 at 6:53:06 pm UTC+10 Michael Waldor wrote: > 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 I did NOT change SKIN_ROOT and HTML_ROOT since the (maybe outdated) 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/d6931dc9-214c-4a75-b1ae-b2bd063b2ca5n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d6931dc9-214c-4a75-b1ae-b2bd063b2ca5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- 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/487d9df0-4640-4b85-9715-005e172c42a9n%40googlegroups.com.
