Not unless you want to break your os massively. Just chown from /var/www/html/weewx and within…
On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 2:35:35 PM UTC-8 O S wrote: > Thanks, Vince - I get: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root weewx 2036 Feb 24 06:17 > /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json > > So, I suppose I need: > > sudo chown -R weewx:weewx /var > > is what i need to do. > > On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 9:12:27 PM UTC Vince Skahan wrote: > >> You must be running the Belchertown fork from >> https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new - the original one has no >> such item in it. >> >> Try "ls -ald >> /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json" and verify >> that file and its parent directories are owned by 'weewx' and group 'weewx'. >> >> On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:15:19 PM UTC-8 O S wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Using the Belchertown skin, I keep exceeding the API limit for the Aeris >>> forecast and I'm not sure why this is. >>> >>> The log, generate with *DEBUG = 1* in *weewx.conf* and *sudo journalctl >>> -u weewx -f | tee /tmp/mylog* in a second terminal, gives me the errors >>> below: >>> >>> Error downloading forecast data: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests >>> >>> and >>> >>> Error writing forecast Current Conditions info to >>> /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json. Reason: >>> [Errno 13] Permission denied: >>> '/var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json' >>> >>> The fuller version of the logs is here <https://pastebin.com/HjwRPuJS>. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Nick. >>> >> -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/79d9ac9a-ac36-4fba-a885-49b049236a84n%40googlegroups.com.
