Topic: Changing Weewx HTML Location

[TinkerTown]

Hi All,

I am hoping someone can help me change the location of the website (using the Belchertown Skin) to /var/www/html on the Acpahe website on the same server. I have tried following the instructions on github that prolabs said he did, but it doesn't work.

This is what he put, which I have tried and no luck. At best I get apache to list the contents of the /var/www/html folder after I do as instructed. I am not a big user of linux, so I am probably missing something.

I am running Ubuntu 20.04.

This is what I was following:

This is what worked for me to make Belchertown the default skin for your site. This is an example config and may need a little fine-tuning site-per-site.

I changed it so the standard skin would be in a subfolder, and the main folder has my skin files. So when you go to my website you're seeing the Belchertown skin, with the default skin under /weewx.

    Edit weewx.conf, then look for [StdReport] and under it change HTML_ROOT to be /var/www/html/weewx. Note, your HTML directory may be /home/weewx/public_html, so you'd want /home/weewx/public_html/weewx.

    Then modify the Belchertown skin options with these minimal updates. Note, you may need to change the path as mentioned above.

    [[Belchertown]]
        HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html
        skin = Belchertown

    This is optional, but advised: Delete all contents of the HTML_ROOT folder and let Belchertown create an entire new site. This prevents stale duplicate data.

    Restart weewx and let it generate the files upon the next archive interval.

[Gyvate]

Does the directory /var/www/html/weewx exist ?
--> ls /var/www/html -l
If not, you have to create it as user root
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/weewx

Did you give permission to Apache to read your new html directory ?
try:
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/weewx

then you should be able to read the content of the /var/www/html/weewx directory via a browser:
http://your-ip/weewx

If you are logged in as user root (usually the # prompt), you don't need the "sudo"

P.S. "-->" means: look by entering the command

[TinkerTown]

Does the directory /var/www/html/weewx exist ?
--> ls /var/www/html -l
If not, you have to create it as user root
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/weewx

Did you give permission to Apache to read your new html directory ?
try:
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/weewx

then you should be able to read the content of the /var/www/html/weewx directory via a browser:
http://your-ip/weewx

If you are logged in as user root (usually the # prompt), you don't need the "sudo"

P.S. "-->" means: look by entering the command

It must have been the permissions because everything else was the same, but now it is working!

Now I just need to figure out how to forward my main webserver to this webserver.

Thanks!