Thanks Gary, That was what I was doing wrong. I'll fix and see how it goes.
I was wondering why that .php file wasn't in the gz directory. Ok so now I know. You probably know from the earlier past of my lat and long, but I'm in Oklahoma. USA Keith On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 7:03:24 AM UTC-6, gjr80 wrote: > > Keith, some answers below > > On Monday, 15 January 2018 18:06:34 UTC+10, k_her...@yahoo.com wrote: >> >> Thanks Gary, >> >> I have started working on rtgd and have a few questions. >> >> 1. in the gauge.js located in weewx/skins/ss/scripts directory where the >> comment says to change to the location of the gauge-data.txt. How do I do >> this? I tried the full path from /Users/keith/Sites/weewx to either >> gauge-data.txt in public_html and public_html/ss but it kills gauges. >> > > The realTimeUrlWeewx setting in gauges.js needs to be set so that your > webserver can find gauge-data.txt. You can use a relative or absolute > path but remember that any absolute path is relative to your web root (not > the root directory of your web server). So if you web server is set to use > /var/www/html as its web root and gauge-data.txt is in the > /var/www/html/ss directory you could use '/ss/gauge-data.txt'. If you > want to use a relative path for realTimeUrlWeewx then the path is > relative to gauges.js (which by default is in the ss/scripts directory in > your web root) and you might use '../gauge-data.txt'. Its a personal > choice (though I am sure some will have good reason for one or the other), > I tend to prefer relative paths but it really is your choice. > > >> 2. in the github download i pulled down a post_gauge-data.php file along >> with the tar.gz . Where do I put this or do I not need it? I haven't seen >> it mentioned anywhere. >> > > post_gauge-data.php is only used if your web server and weeWX are on > different machines AND you wish to use http post to transfer > gauge-data.txt to from your weeWX machine to your web server. If this is > not the case then you can ignore post_gauge-data.php as it is not needed. > If your weeWX and web servers are different machines let me know and I will > talk you through its use. > > Probably dumb questions but it kinda has me stuck. >> > >> Also, out of curiosity, where do you live? >> > > I am just outside of Brisbane, Australia. > > Gary > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
