Why no htm file?

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With some difficulty, I managed to follow the instructions in the FAQ for the basic web page. The server directory includes
cloudheight.gif
dailyhighlowbaroetc.gif
moondetail1.gif
moondetail2.gif
moonicon.gif
.gif
dial.gif
summary.gif
sunmoonimage.jpg

There is no .htm, which I expected.

I did find this file in D:\weatherdisp\webfiles, along with numerous other files, many of them HTML text files.

Obviously, I can copy this to the server directory with an FTP client, but it would probably not be updated.

What have I done wrong?

Second question: Much of the web info is in the form of .gif files. How can I edit what is displayed on these? There is much irrelevant data, which has nothing to do with my primitive cheapo station.

Sorry to be so thick.

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Under Control panel - Web Files - Web files setup #1 what do you have entered as “Weather Station File Name”

-Bob

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Where I put , above, and in the Weather Station File Name, I have Mosfiloti - this is the name of the village where I live.

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Do you have a Mosfiloti.htm or Mosfiloti.html file in the webfiles folder or on your server?

-Bob

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can you post a url so we can see what is or looks wrong and then help you to fix it?

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The URL is Alternative Energy in Cyprus

Yes, Mosfiloti.htm is in the webfiles directory of my computer, but not on the server.

Thanks for your help!

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I would check and make sure that you do not have “Customize Internet file creation and upload” enabled… If it is turn it off.

Other wise I would walk through the “Action - Run a web page setup wizard” once again check every step as noted in the FAQ…

-Bob

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I’ve tried several things, no success, so far. However, I felt the whole proggy was hogging all my computer resources, so I thought there was more amiss than just this problem. I uninstalled the prog and tried re-installing, but saw it retained my set-up. I therefore uninstalled again, deleted every ref I could find to WD, including in the registry (31 keys), so I thought I had a clean machine. I reinstalled to a new directory, but it still had all the details of my first installation. I then tried to set up the web from scratch to a different server directory: identical result, no .htm.

What is the file name where the data is stored; certainly not in the weatherdisp directory???

Sorry to be such a pest.

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Before completely uninstalling WD you may want to try making a second virgin install as noted here:

However to uninstall WD…

1: Shut down WD, checking with Windows task manager that it is really shut down and ftpupd.exe is also stopped.

2: Use the Install/Uninstall programs from Control panel in Windows to remove WD

3: Locate WDisplay.ini in C:\winnet or C:\windows (depending on your version of Windows) and delete that.

4: Run regedit.exe, and search for wdisplayftp.ini and then delete that whole key (highlight it) from the registry

(As a personal observation when uninstalling a program such as WD I would reboot after before trying to install again)

But generally Brian recommends the first option, a completely virgin install in a second directory using the 2wd.txt trick…

-Bob

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Thanks a lot. It was the ini file in the windows directory that was causing me grief. I’m starting a new install now and will let you know how I get on.

Suggestion: should the location of the ini file be published in the FAQs?

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OK, thanks, I now have a result, of sorts. :slight_smile: This can be seen at http://www.cypenv.org/meteo/Mosfiloti.htm

I now want to get the page looking like I’d like it to look, mainly the table. I’ve a feeling that I’ve many more questions before I’m through, though. :?

One question re the default page, though. At the bottom, it shows:

Sunset at: 16:33:54

Moonrise at:
16:36:33 16/11/05

Moonset at:
06:32:02 16/11/05

First Quarter 9 November 2005
Full moon 16 November 2005
Last Quarter23 November 2005
New moon 1 December 2005
Moon age: 15 days,2 hours,46 minutes,100%
Hours of possible daylight today was 12:07:00

Is there a reason why there is no sunrise?

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It appears you have modified your datahtm3.txt file as the footer that is contained by default in that file is not in your file?

Offhand I don’t remember the sun and moon details as being a normal footer (in text) to the basic WD web page…

-Bob

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At this stage, I modified nothing: this was 100% default setting.

Another few hundred questions are on their way but some will wait until tomorrow :lol: :lol:

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Locate the datahtm3.txt file in your webfiles folder and paste the code here from that file as it normally will contain at least the following:

<CENTER><P>
<HR WIDTH="100%"></P></CENTER>
<CENTER><P>
<HR WIDTH="100%"></P></CENTER>
The data is logged at two minute intervals, but there is data recorded every minute.
Best viewed in 800 x 600 and True colour.
<center><p>Use the <font color="#FF0000">RELOAD</font> facility
on your browser to retrieve the latest data.</center>
<CENTER><FONT SIZE=+2><A HREF="weekrep.htm">Click here for a daily update of the averages/extremes to date for the month</A></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.weather-display.com">Created by "Weather Display" software version 10.30a at this start time/date 10:47:51 AM 11/12/2005</A></FONT></CENTER>
</BODY></HTML>

Which i don’t see as being included in your .htm file…

-Bob

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Sorry, misunderstanding! When I said, “At this stage” I meant at the time I posted the message. Yes, I subsequently did make some modifications to some of the *htm?.txt files to eliminate some of the superfluous info. I was unable to eliminate the summary and some of the other stuff. I really want only the table, but modified. I think I’ll work on an ad hoc web page containing only the info I wish to publish. I’ve printed out the customised web page data as a first step.

I’m asking a further question or two in a new thread.