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== Testing == | == Testing == | ||
Both Cumulus 1.x.y and Cumulus MX while running will create web pages in the local 'web' sub-directory, and upload these to the web space by FTP. Cumulus 1.x.y will also upload images (including graphs for 'trends.htm' page, moon image, and wind images as seen on Cumulus main screen) by FTP from the 'web\images' sub-directory to the 'images' folder on your web space. Cumulus MX will also upload by FTP from the installation folder some JSON files used to create graphs. | |||
# You can force an immediate web update to test your settings by, in File menu within Cumulus 1, clicking Web Update. | # You can force an immediate web update to test your settings by, in File menu within Cumulus 1, clicking Web Update. | ||
# This will display a window of progress as it uploads the necessary files to your web space (or show a failure message). (Within the Configuration menu, you can turn on 'FTP logging' for full diagnostics). | # This will display a window of progress as it uploads the necessary files to your web space (or show a failure message). (Within the Configuration menu, you can turn on 'FTP logging' for full diagnostics). | ||
# | #* Once completed the Cumulus 1 progress display will end with “Logging Out” and you can close the window. | ||
Apart from the differences in the user interface, and the differences in web pages for 'gauges.htm' and 'trends.htm', both versions of Cumulus generate the same web pages. When looking at the uploaded web pages using a browser, both can be tested in the same way. | |||
* Open a web browser | |||
*# Type in 'your web site' Universal Resource Locator (URL) name, if you were hosting yourself then ''localhost'' is usually recognised. It could be the same as you typed for ''Host Name'', anyway, your provider has probably told you what your web site name is. | |||
*# The web server will have a list of file names that specify the order of names to look for to determine the first page to be shown, Cumulus produces a page called ''index.htm'' and (unless you have uploaded additional pages with names that occur earlier in the server's list) that will be loaded, | |||
*# Click one of the navigation links at the bottom of the standard Cumulus pages, and the next page will be sent to the browser. Repeat this to look through your complete Cumulus website with your data on the various pages. | |||
=Possible problems= | =Possible problems= | ||