Pi as Server

In order to publish the data of my Renkfore WH2315 radio weather station elsewhere as on Weather Underground an external server has to be installed. I have bought a vServer on netcup. This server workes with nginx as webserver.

Here you can see my setting (arrows define the connections). setting_with_server

A detailed description can be seen in the main article (Weather Station).

Installation takes place on the Pi and on the server:

Following links give good overviews: How to Install Nginx on Raspberry Pi (Tony Teaches Tech) with including video.

First I have installed nginx:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install nginx

I have basically worked through the following steps in the WeeWX documentation:

Verify that nginx is running:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $
systemctl status nginx

WeeWx does host the files here:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls /var/www/html/
index.nginx-debian.html  weewx

So Nginx should contain the following configuration:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
...
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

root /var/www/html;

...

Test that nginx runs on local network:

http://192.168.0.115/index.nginx-debian.html

http://192.168.0.115/weewx/index.html

Commands:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $
sudo systemctl start nginx 
sudo systemctl stop nginx 
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Integrating the webserver:

To publish the data of weewx and make finally worldwide available over the Internet the

/var/www/html/weewx

folder has only to be synced via a cronjob.