I tried to install FreshWDL to my website. The instructions I got were, “just upload the freshWDL .html and config.js files to your web site, where the clientraw.txt file is, and then point your web browser to that web page, and it should work.” The file in the zip was freshWDLmaster.html, so that’s what I put in the directory with the config.js file.
Unfortunately, no go. When I go to The Voorhees Weather Station, all I get is a version of my homepage from 2008. FreshWDL does not come up. I also tried putting the files in the old wdlfiles folder. the system still put a copy of the clientraw files there as well as in the root. same result.
I’m obviously doing something wrong. Any ideas?
thanks…
…joe
PS: the forum keeps changing the web address and page above to a hyperlink. I wish it wouldn’t…
If you don’t want a URL to be converted to a link (which is the most common requirement) then put it in a quote (look for the quote option in the editor icon bar).
I finally was able to get FreshWDL to work. For some reason, the html file needed to be renamed “index.html.” No other name would work.
It also turns out that the old webpage from 2008 that kept coming up was a “stuck” “index.php” file that was generated somehow when the server at the hosting service burped and took the site offline for several days back in the early part of this year. When they restored the site after fixing the server, there were a lot of old previously deleted files that were restored as well. I thought I was able to get most of them deleted again, but I must’ve missed one.
I guess, for whatever reason, when I tried to browse to “FreshWDLmaster.html,” the requirement to have a file named “index” would bring up that old php file. Once that file was deleted, it still wouldn’t work, hence the thought to change the name of “FreshWDLmaster.html” to “index.html.”
But index.html is your main web page which I assume is in your root directory and you can only have one index in a directory
All I can say is something very strange is going on with your server
The “index.html” for FreshWDL is not in the root directory. its in the “root/wdlfiles” directory. The main site is working fine and there’s nothing wrong with the server.
So it’s referrring to your web site as www.njvoorheesweather.com, but the links you’re posting here have been njvoorheesweather.com (no www). If I access your FreshWDL site using www.njvoorheesweather.com/wdlfiles/ (FreshWDL) then FreshWDL is displayed with data in it. My guess is that njvoorheesweather.com is pointing somewhere slightly different than www.njvoorheesweather.com but that would only be something that you could see in your host control panel/interface.
Again, I don’t know why that would be. If you look at the pic uploaded earlier, the address bar says, “njvoorheesweather.com/wdlfiles/index.html.” So there’s no “www” in it and I didn’t type it in with “www”.
I will take out the “www” config to see if that helps anyway.
