wviewweather.com

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

Mark:

Where should I be focussing my efforts to find out why .html files are not being generated/updated, but image files are?! I'm leaving tomorrow for two weeks and would love to be able to check our website for weather updates.

Thanks,

Paul

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

html-templates.conf

Are they not being generated or not being transferred via FTP?

Have you looked in /var/wview/img to see if they are there? If they are, it is an FTP issue. If they are not, then you need to add them to html-templates.conf or even better, copy the example file from the distribution.

Also be sure you realize everything is transferred to the img directory on the remote server by the FTP daemon.

Also, the log file is your friend here again, should say something like "generated 20 images and 8 htmls" or similar...

They were being generated before so you must have changed something.

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

The html-templates.conf file is as follows (yes I tried to change it to take advantage of my Vantage Pro Plus:

#
# html-templates.conf - define the HTML template files to use for HTML
# generation
#

# File Format
#
# 1) lines beginning with '#' or <blank> are ignored
#

# Column Format
#
# 1) template file name (must be in /etc/wview/html)
#

### Use these for Vantage Pro Plus Extended Data
### Remember to rename "index_Plus.htx" to "index.htx" in the /etc/wview/html
### directory for UV and ET display on the home page and URL references to
### these pages...
Current_Conditions_Plus.htx
Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

# Home Page template, do not remove unless you are using the day/night
# alternative below
index.htx

# Daytime/Nighttime Home Pages - if you want a different homepage template
# based on day or night, uncomment these and copy your templates to
# /etc/wview/html/index-day.htx and /etc/wview/html/index-night.htx respectively
# index-day.htx
# index-night.htx

# Add, remove or modify as needed
Current_Conditions.htx
almanac.htx
# Daily_Vantage_Pro.htx
# Monthly_Vantage_Pro.htx
# Yearly_Vantage_Pro.htx

Things did work before, but no html files are created locally. The System Log file is quit after start-up. No indication if anything is running or not. The Terminal app, just gives the same error command at each connect.

Thx

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Then you have disabled log messages in wview.conf - re-enable them.
The html-templates.conf looks fine, but you have to copy index-Plus.htx to index.htx so the home page references are to the "_Plus" files you have enabled in the html-templates.conf file. No htm files are generated? Having a hard time believing that...

This is all in the UM...

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Paul,

You posted "0 rules added" for FTP yesterday - that was from the /var/log/System.log file - have you forgotten that already?
That is where all wview log messages are posted - it is still there, same as yesterday.

Mac uses the filename System.log instead of messages.log - just to be even more irritating...

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

This is all that I get from the System.log (2-hours since restart):

Sep 16 20:48:57 G5-Tower sudo: paul : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter start wview
Sep 16 20:48:57 G5-Tower wviewd[1619]: <1586305634> : station interface: serial ...
Sep 16 20:48:58 G5-Tower wvalarmd[1624]: <1586306641> : /etc/wview/wvalarm.conf does not exist - exiting...

Sep 16 20:48:58 G5-Tower wvcwopd[1626]: <1586306647> : /etc/wview/wvcwop.conf does not exist - exiting...

Sep 16 20:48:58 G5-Tower wviewftpd[1628]: <1586306660> : FTP: 4 rules added
Sep 16 20:48:58 G5-Tower wviewftpd[1628]: <1586306661> : starting ftp timer for 2 mins 17 secs
Sep 16 20:48:58 G5-Tower wviewsshd[1630]: <1586306662> : /etc/wview/wviewssh.conf does not exist - exiting...

Sorry, Mark. I'm sure this is as frustrating to you as it is to me.

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

I would guess you have a bunch of versions of wview daemons running from multiple starts and not stopping them. That shows no htmlgend being started, wviewd not getting very far, etc. The UM has an example output to the log file for a good startup, this is not one.

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

From the "console:"

1629 wviewftpd 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 21 56K 1.09M 164K 27.4M
1628 wviewftpd 0.0% 0:00.18 1 10 22 52K 1.09M 304K 27.4M
1625 htmlgend 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 38 64K 2.04M 176K 30.9M
1623 htmlgend 0.0% 0:16.25 1 10 39 576K 2.04M 1.00M 30.9M
1621 wviewd 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 22 56K 1.16M 164K 27.6M
1619 wviewd 0.0% 0:01.13 1 10 24 84K 1.16M 380K 27.6M

htmlgend seems to be working (and it is updating the image files, which are being ftp-ed to http://www.pcrguam.com/img)

I need some sleep ...

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

I just discovered that the index file that is being generated is called index.html not index.htm, which excluded it from being uploaded under wviewftp.conf "img/*.htm I've changed the ftp conf to: