installing weewx on a raspberry pi doesn't create /var/www/weewx

[J.L. Blom]

HI,
I try to install weewx on a raspberry pi2. Apparently the installation
goes without a hitch but the directory (and its content) of weewx is not
created. It says that weewx is started but the command "ps -ef|grep
weewx" shows no process with that name is running.
I have several times to install from the .deb package
(weewx_3.1.0-1_all.deb) with purging in between and the station
connected (I also did it without the station connected) but that has no
effect.
The crazy thing is that weewx apparently is running (after starting
using "sudo service weewx start") but I cannot see any data as the web
interface isn't available.
Can somebody give me a clue where I do something wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Joep

[Chip Cuccio]

What do the logs say?
http://www.weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#Software_problems

[vince]

On Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 7:37:23 AM UTC-7, Joep L. Blom wrote:

I try to install weewx on a raspberry pi2. Apparently the installation
goes without a hitch but the directory (and its content) of weewx is not
created.

You probably need to install a webserver on your Pi.

Try 'sudo apt-get install apache2'

also see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/web-server/apache.md for details...

[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Here's a download link for an SD image for the Pi that you can burn to an SD if you want to go that route.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxhv22gvwua77wo/Weewx%203.1.0%20Test.zip?dl=0

Dave-KB1PVH

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[Joep L. Blom]

vince
Apache2 is running (i can see the message that it is running without content).
Joep

[vince]

On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 2:05:56 AM UTC-7, Joep L. Blom wrote:

vince
Apache2 is running (i can see the message that it is running without content).

Well then your document root in weewx.conf does not agree with the document root in your apache configuration.

 

[Joep L. Blom]

Dave,
I loade that image in my dropbox directory. However, I have a lot of stuff already running on my raspberry so
I don't want to use  a new image. Only I would like to know why the site directory is not loaded. I also cannot
find it in the files in the .deb fiel so I assume they are generated during installation. Apache2 is installed and
I have the TE923 connected to the raspberry.
as I have it also running on my workstation I can of course copy it to the raspberry but I think that's not the correct procedure.
Somebody has other idea's?
Joep

Maybe other ideas?

[gjr80]

Hi Joep,
Very hard to help with only general info like 'it does not work'. Could you please post a log extract from weewx start up onwards.

Gary

[Joep L. Blom]

Gary,
thanks.
I just started it. Here are the log entries:
______________________________________________
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: te923: Found device on USB bus=001 device=008
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: StdConvert target unit is 0x1
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Archive will use data binding wx_binding
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Record generation will be attempted in 'hardware'
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Using archive interval of 300 seconds
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Using binding 'wx_binding' to database '/var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb'
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Starting backfill of daily summaries
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Daily summaries up to date.
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Starting up weewx version 3.1.0
May 25 18:18:29 kangoo weewx[13984]: engine: Starting main packet loop.
 ___________________________________
I don' see anything abnormal but the directory weewx in /var/www doesn't exist.
Joep

[Joep L. Blom]

On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 5:48:20 PM UTC+2, gjr80 wrote:

Sorry! The directory is there!. However, I cannot reach it. When look at it from my workstation it says:
"404 not found". I have restarted apache. Do I have to restatr the raspberry??
Joep
 

[Chris Thompstone]

Did you wait 5 minutes for the website to be built?

[Joep L. Blom]

On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 7:17:41 PM UTC+2, Chris Thompstone wrote:

Did you wait 5 minutes for the website to be built?

 

Yes. But I think something in the Apache2 configuration is not correct, although I have the weewx.conf copied into in the /etc/apache2/conf.d directory.
But I'm looking on and think I will find the problem (which is I think trivial).
Thanks for the replies.
Joep

[Chris Thompstone]

unless you have something against it, I'd just use lighttpd , I just install it and it 'just works'

job done...