A file:// url is based on your host filesystem namespace but a https:// url is based on the webserver docroot, so unless your webserver docroot is / which would be a massive security risk, you are trying to do two conflicting things. Why not just run a local webserver and hit that url ?
On Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 4:55:19 PM UTC-7 Chuck Rhode wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've installed two extensions: SteelSeries Weather Gauges > (https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-steelseries) and Rtgd > (https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-realtime_gauge-data). A frequently > updated gauges-data.txt file is found at public_html/. A > less-frequently updated gauges-data.txt file is found at > public_html/ss/. > > Both files are ftp'd to my web server, and — in fact — the page at > https://lacusveris.com/Weather/ss/index.html does find the frequently > updated gauges-data.txt file. > > The SteelSeries Weather Gauges Extension specifies (in > ss/scripts/gauges.js) that, "The realtime files should be absolute > paths, "/xxx.txt" refers to the public root of your web server," but > the nearby specification: > > > realTimeUrlWeewx : 'gauge-data.txt' > > ... does not appear to be an absolute path. I suppose IT IS though. > > Of course, in weewx.conf [RealtimeGaugeData], rtgd_path is "Path to > gauge-data.txt. Relative paths are relative to HTML_ROOT. If empty[,] > HTML_ROOT is used." > > In summary, each of the two extensions has a specification for the > path to the gauge-data.txt file, but one is absolute and one is > relative. Is there some way I can write the ss/scripts/gauges.js > specification so that gauge-data.txt can be found relative to > HTML_ROOT? It doesn't look like it. > > I don't really want to hit my web server. Instead, I want to browse > locally to file:///home/ccrhode/weewx-data/public_html/ss/index.html > so that I can do away with my old Ambient USB console in favor of a > new console-less Ecowitt WiFi gateway and still see near realtime > indicators. Please tell me I'm being unreasonable. > > - -- > .. Be Seeing You, > .. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA > .. Weather: https://LacusVeris.com/Wx > .. 55° — Wind WNW at 13 mph. Sky overcast. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iF0EARECAB0WIQT+MY/5I/LMPSswTbVg2/xipKOWUgUCaC+5VAAKCRBg2/xipKOW > UqhyAJ9awNSwF3BcMUb2ov/bD6YyXpItqACdG5assettwh4uO+7kz5dWwlil6EI= > =QzFE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- 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/815ad7df-8959-45a3-91f2-f333dec05460n%40googlegroups.com.
