Just an update for the group. I got everything running fine using rsync,
mqtt, the belchertown skin and a lightsail VPS through AWS. It was a fun
little project! I never used Lightsail before so it was cool to see that
service for a bit.
If I had to do it again I think I'd just opt for a straight ec2 instance,
but in the end I'm happy with the results.
On Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 3:34:44 PM UTC-5 William Reading wrote:
> You can also always set up cloudfront to hit the Pi running a webserver as
> the origin. Personally, I just run nginx as a reverse proxy to the pi (and
> skip paying for CF), which I think is generally good enough as long as
> you're comfortable setting up something like let's encrypt and dns pointed
> at it.
>
> S3 static sites are nice in that you don't have to run an EC2 instance or
> configure that, but I've found that they have a bit of a learning curve
> because you need to make sure that stuff is shared publicly in the bucket
> and working there before you can point cloudfront at it. I think cloudfront
> also does have a mode where you skip the S3 static site altogether and just
> serve files out of S3, but I haven't tried that approach before.
>
> --Bill
>
> On Jul 27, 2023, at 15:56, Sideshow Raheem wrote:
>
> You know how when youre a hammer everything looks like a nail?
>
> I use AWS at work, though not CloudFront as I'm not a web guy, and just
> jumped in head first that way for some reason. I think youre right though,
> MQTT is probably a better way to go.
>
> On Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 2:39:49 PM UTC-5 michael.k...@gmx.at wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> why isn't FTP'ing from the Pi to any simple webspace an option? For MQTT
>> features you'll probably get along with flespi.io
>>
>> Or did I miss something?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sideshow Raheem schrieb am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2023 um 21:31:34 UTC+2:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've been enjoying tinkering with my new weather station lately. I've
>>> got it setup perfectly on my raspberry pi at home and it displays exactly
>>> how I'd like using WeeWx and the Belchertown skin.
>>>
>>> Now I want to securely get it accessible via the web. At first I thought
>>> that the directions here would work well for me -
>>> https://www.cougar.eu.com/useful-guides/weewx-guides/publish-weewx-to-s3/index.html
>>> and it seemed like it was. But using CloudFront and this setup I'm
>>> just getting a static site that doesnt update, and all of the pictures are
>>> broke as well.
>>>
>>> Now I'm wondering if I either A) setup something incorrectly, or B) am
>>> taking the wrong approach.
>>>
>>> Would I be better off hosting the WeeWx server itself in AWS instead of
>>> my Raspberry Pi? And then just harden the ec2 instance in AWS? I liked the
>>> appeal of the s3 hosted site but just cant seem to get it to load correctly.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> www.duluthweather.com
>>>
>>>
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