Can't get ftp working after reinstall

Maarten Weerman

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Apr 15, 2021, 3:03:07 AM4/15/21

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Hi,

First of all am using weewx in a raspberry Pi 2 environment. When checking my weather data yesterday, i noticed that my raspberry was frozen. So i tried to restart the rp. But with no luck. In the end i had to reinstall raspbian and weewx again and since i only have copy of my database, i also lost track of my configuration in the FTP section.

My FTP is like this with any passwords and usernames xed out.

User: webXXXXXX (followed by a six digit number)

Pass:'XXXXXXXX'

Server: rex14.flatbooster.com

Path: /html/weewx (there is a leading html folder in my ftp Setup)

Secure FTP: true

The server adress must be somewhat modified. I had already tried combinations like "ftp.rex14.flatbooster.com" but with no success.

But no matter what combination, i always get an error message like this.

Karen K

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Apr 15, 2021, 10:13:55 AM4/15/21

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I learn from the logs that there is a problem with authentication. Could you provide the complete FTP section of weewx.conf? Replace user and password by X, only. But do not replace '=' by ':' etc.

weerman

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Apr 15, 2021, 12:33:38 PM4/15/21

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Hi,

This is the FTP configuration of my weewx.conf file

[[FTP]]

# FTP'ing the results to a webserver is treated as just another report,

# albeit one with an unusual report generator!

skin = Ftp

# If you wish to use FTP, set "enable" to "true", then

# fill out the next four lines.

# Use quotes around passwords to guard against parsing errors.

enable = true

user = webxxxxxx

password = 'xxxxxxxx

server = webxxxxxx.rex14.flatbooster.com # The ftp server name, e.g, www.myserver.org

path = /html/weewx # The destination directory, e.g., /weather

# Set to True for an FTP over TLS (FTPS) connection. Not all servers

# support this.

secure_ftp = true

# To upload files from something other than what HTML_ROOT is set

# to above, specify a different HTML_ROOT here.

#HTML_ROOT = public_html

# Most FTP servers use port 21

port = 21

# Set to 1 to use passive mode, zero for active mode

passive = 1

Karen K

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Apr 15, 2021, 2:12:58 PM4/15/21

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There is the ' missing at the end of the password line. If that's the same in your original file, that's the problem. Additionally you may want to remove the comments at the end of the lines "server" and "path".

weerman

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Apr 15, 2021, 5:10:11 PM4/15/21

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Hi,

The missing ' wasn't the problem, i forgot to add it in the post.

I tried to remove the comments at the end of server and path, but still no success

Again, here's my copy of FTP section of weewx.conf.

Edit: Tried again changing the prefix to http but no success.

[[FTP]]

# FTP'ing the results to a webserver is treated as just another report,

# albeit one with an unusual report generator!

skin = Ftp

# If you wish to use FTP, set "enable" to "true", then

# fill out the next four lines.

# Use quotes around passwords to guard against parsing errors.

enable = true

user = webxxxxxx

password = 'xxxxxxxx'

server = http://webxxxxxx.rex14.flatbooster.com

path = /html/weewx

# Set to True for an FTP over TLS (FTPS) connection. Not all servers

# support this.

secure_ftp = true

# To upload files from something other than what HTML_ROOT is set

# to above, specify a different HTML_ROOT here.

#HTML_ROOT = public_html

# Most FTP servers use port 21

port = 21

# Set to 1 to use passive mode, zero for active mode

passive = 1

Here's my weewx error log file

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system...

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15101] INFO __main__: Initializing weewx version 4.5.1

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15101] INFO __main__: Using Python 3.5.3 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:11:04) #012[GCC 6.3.0 20170124]

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15101] INFO __main__: Platform Linux-4.9.41-v7+-armv7l-with-debian-9.1

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15101] INFO __main__: Locale is 'de_DE.UTF-8'

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15101] INFO __main__: PID file is /var/run/weewx.pid

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO __main__: Using configuration file /home/weewx/weewx.conf

Apr 15 21:01:13 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO __main__: Debug is 0

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: Loading station type FineOffsetUSB (weewx.drivers.fousb)

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15090]: Starting weewx weather system: weewx.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: weewx weather system.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: driver version is 1.20

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: polling mode is PERIODIC

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: polling interval is 60

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: found station on USB bus= device=

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: StdConvert target unit is 0x1

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: Archive will use data binding wx_binding

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: Record generation will be attempted in 'software'

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: Using archive interval of 300 seconds (software record generation)

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: StationRegistry: Station will be registered.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: Wunderground: Posting not enabled.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: PWSweather: Posting not enabled.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: CWOP: Posting not enabled.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: WOW: Posting not enabled.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: AWEKAS: Posting not enabled.

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO __main__: Starting up weewx version 4.5.1

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: Using binding 'wx_binding' to database 'weewx.sdb'

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.manager: Starting backfill of daily summaries

Apr 15 21:01:14 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.manager: Daily summaries up to date

Apr 15 21:01:15 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.drivers.fousb: unrecognised magic number 0923

Apr 15 21:01:15 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: synchronising to the weather station (quality=1)

Apr 15 21:01:59 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: unstable read: blocks differ for ptr 0x000000

Apr 15 21:02:00 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.manager: Added record 2021-04-15 23:01:59 CEST (1618520519) to database 'weewx.sdb'

Apr 15 21:02:00 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.manager: Added record 2021-04-15 23:01:59 CEST (1618520519) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'

Apr 15 21:02:00 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.engine: Starting main packet loop.

Apr 15 21:02:01 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.restx: StationRegistry: Published record 2021-04-15 23:01:59 CEST (1618520519)

Apr 15 21:02:03 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.drivers.fousb: station status {'rain_overflow': 0, 'unknown': 0, 'lost_connection': 0} (0)

Apr 15 21:06:04 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.manager: Added record 2021-04-15 23:05:00 CEST (1618520700) to database 'weewx.sdb'

Apr 15 21:06:04 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.manager: Added record 2021-04-15 23:05:00 CEST (1618520700) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'

Apr 15 21:06:10 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.cheetahgenerator: Generated 8 files for report SeasonsReport in 5.76 seconds

Apr 15 21:06:16 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.imagegenerator: Generated 30 images for report SeasonsReport in 6.10 seconds

Apr 15 21:06:16 raspberrypi weewx[15105] INFO weewx.reportengine: Copied 5 files to /home/weewx/public_html

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: ftpgenerator: (0): caught exception '<class 'socket.gaierror'>': [Errno -2] Der Name oder der Dienst ist nicht bekannt

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** Traceback (most recent call last):

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** File "/home/weewx/bin/weewx/reportengine.py", line 331, in run

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** n = ftp_data.run()

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** File "/home/weewx/bin/weeutil/ftpupload.py", line 133, in run

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** ftp_server.connect(self.server, self.port)

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** File "/usr/lib/python3.5/ftplib.py", line 153, in connect

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** source_address=self.source_address)

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 694, in create_connection

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 733, in getaddrinfo

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Der Name oder der Dienst ist nicht bekannt

Apr 15 21:06:17 raspberrypi weewx[15105] ERROR weewx.reportengine: ftpgenerator: (1): caught exception '<class 'socket.gaierror'>': [Errno -2] Der Name oder der Dienst ist nicht bekannt