I've always thought of the how to integrate with a webserver docs as notional rather than step-by-step-do-this-verbatim.
On Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 1:03:37 PM UTC-8 David VE3STI wrote: > My 2016 WeeWX setup recently crashed so I decided to upgrade with a fresh > install with Raspberry Pi OS (Bullseye - I'm using a RPi Zero W as my > dedicated computer) and WeeWX 5.1. I am a complete klutz in Linux so I > tried to follow the installation instructions as closely as possible. > > All went well until I began setting up the local web server. I chose nginx > because I have a low power RPi Zero W and because I used nginx in 2016. > Unfortunately, I had long since forgotten how I set it up. I used the > instructions at the GitHub wiki > < > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Configure-a-web-server-(Apache,-NGINX-or-lighttpd)>. > > It suggests adding: > > server { > location /weewx { > alias /home/weewx/public_html; > } > > to the 'default' file in the </etc/nginx/sites-available/> folder. > > However, this did not work with my installation. After much > head-scratching, I edited the 'alias' line to: > > alias /var/www/html/weewx/; > > Because of my limited knowledge of WeeWX and nginx, I didn't try to fiddle > with the wiki entry. I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary > during the installation. Could these instructions be for an older version > of WeeWX? Maybe someone who knows can figure out if the wiki needs to be > corrected - the current suggestion didn't work for me. > > All now seems to be working well with my WeeWX+RPi Zero W+Vantage Vue > weather station setup. I hope this helps someone. > > David > VE3STI > Picton, ON Canada > -- 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. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/86c1677e-a8aa-49fb-aa82-fdfe96d59bfbn%40googlegroups.com.
