FTP not working under Trixie

[Peter Fletcher]

Sorry about the appearing/disappearing message. I realized that I had uploaded a version of the conf file without the FTP passwords obscured.

After a great deal of hair-pulling, I have got all the services that I have on my 'workhorse' Pi 3 under Bookworm, including weewx (I thought!) working under Trixie. I then found that weewx was running, storing my weather data correctly in my remote MySQL database, and generating the two different sets of reports I respectively use for home consumption and 'publication', but it wasn't FTPing the generated files intended for publication to their target systems (or anywhere else). No relevant errors were being reported (with debug set to 0 in weewx.conf); the FTP transfers were just not happening. Setting debug to 1 in weewx.conf did shed some light on the problem. As you can see in the attached log file, the ftpgenerator reports: "FTP upload not requested. Skipped." The identical reporting section (extract also attached) is working fine in my Bookworm installation. Can anyone shed any further light on this?

[Pablo Sanchez]

Just in case, Peter - please change your FTP password immediately. 

Cheers!

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pablo

On 2026-04-16 18:51, 'Peter Fletcher' via weewx-user wrote:

Sorry about the appearing/disappearing message. I realized that I had uploaded a version of the conf file without the FTP passwords obscured.

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[Tom Keffer]

You ran into a bug!

If HTML_ROOT is not defined under [StdReport], then the report engine raises a KeyError, even though you defined HTML_ROOT for all of your FTP sessions.

As a workaround, put anything in there. For example,

[StdReport]

    HTML_ROOT = foo

would work.

I've created issue #1082 to track.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM 'Peter Fletcher' via weewx-user <weewx...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Sorry about the appearing/disappearing message. I realized that I had uploaded a version of the conf file without the FTP passwords obscured.

After a great deal of hair-pulling, I have got all the services that I have on my 'workhorse' Pi 3 under Bookworm, including weewx (I thought!) working under Trixie. I then found that weewx was running, storing my weather data correctly in my remote MySQL database, and generating the two different sets of reports I respectively use for home consumption and 'publication', but it wasn't FTPing the generated files intended for publication to their target systems (or anywhere else). No relevant errors were being reported (with debug set to 0 in weewx.conf); the FTP transfers were just not happening. Setting debug to 1 in weewx.conf did shed some light on the problem. As you can see in the attached log file, the ftpgenerator reports: "FTP upload not requested. Skipped." The identical reporting section (extract also attached) is working fine in my Bookworm installation. Can anyone shed any further light on this?

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