Weewx- MQTT permissions error

[Dun Mac]

I have a MQTT broker setup on a dedicated RPi and another dedicated RPi running Weewx. The MQTT broker to client is working using manual testing. When I include the MQTT settings in Weewx.conf'

 [[MQTT]]

        server_url = mqtt://vantagepro:aug90sept...@192.168.8.158:1833/

        topic = weather

        unit_system = METRIC

        binding = archive, loop

        aggregation = aggregate

and then run wee_reports I get a permissions error on two of the Belchertown files

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 196, in run

    obj.start()

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 281, in start

    self.run()

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 429, in run

    ncopy += weeutil.weeutil.deep_copy_path(path, html_dest_dir)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weeutil/weeutil.py", line 1440, in deep_copy_path

    shutil.copy(path, d)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/shutil.py", line 245, in copy

    copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/shutil.py", line 121, in copyfile

    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/html/belchertown/favicon.ico'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 196, in run

    obj.start()

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 281, in start

    self.run()

  File "/usr/share/weewx/user/belchertown.py", line 1857, in run

    with open(json_filename, mode='w') as jf:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/html/belchertown/json/homepage.json'

vantagepro@RPi-weather:/etc/weewx $

When I comment out the [[MQTT]] section in weewx.conf and re run wee_reports the report generation runs with no exceptions.

Has anyone had such an issue or able to make any suggestions for correction, please

Duncan

[vince]

try "sudo wee_reports" and see if that helps any or alternately just let weewx do things since it typically runs as root and shouldn't have permission issues.

[Dun Mac]

Thank you Vince. Weewx has always ran with no logged errors prior to the addition of the MQTT parameters. But when I have added the MQTT parameters to the weewx.conf the errors appear. I ran the "sudo weewx.conf" and the errors were not logged.  However I still have an issue that I can't get live updates nor the weewx-mqtt to effectively log onto the broker. I thought this permissions issue may have had something to do with matter.