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A Raspberry Pi operated Wireless Allsky Camera
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FTP Upload again #211

Closed MichaelSkycam closed 3 years ago

MichaelSkycam commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I really love the Allsky-Software, but the FTP Feature is a pain in the ass. I tried now for weeks to get it working, without success. Nothing is getting uploaded.

My FTP settings are: PROTOCOL='sftp' USER='xxxxxxxxx' PASSWORD='xxxxxxxxx' HOST='xxxxxxxxxx.de' IMGDIR='/images/' MP4DIR='/allsky/videos/' KEOGRAM_DIR='/allsky/keograms/' STARTRAILS_DIR='/allsky/startrails/'

I checked the Paths with Filezilla, they must be right. I tried a thousand different combinations without success. Of course lftp is installed and SSH is activated on my Raspberry. Settings in Allsky are also fine. All Directories are chmod 777.

The Main-Directory of my Webspace has only one Sub-Directory "allsky". Very simple. The images Directory is in the Main-Directory like the ftp-settings say. I had to change to sftp because ftp caused a "Certificate verification: certificate common name doesn't match requested host name" Error.

At the Moment there a two Problems:

I would be very lucky to get some help here ! Thanks and best regards Michael

I will donate to erverybody who helps me getting this working. :+1:

Dentonknifeworks commented 4 years ago

Ok I think your issue is on the server side let me tell you what I had to do to get mine working. When I go to dentonknifeworks.com it is actually on the server dentonknifworks.com/home/ So in my FTP setting I have HOST='dentonknifeworks.com' IMGDIR='/home/allsky' MP4DIR='/home/allsky/videos/' KEOGRAM_DIR='/home/allsky/keograms/' STARTRAILS_DIR='/home/allsky/startrails/' Now this works for me but for one thing when I go to dentonknifworks.com/home/alsky/ it loads. But I just want to put out dentonknifeworks.com so in the /home/ dir I put a redirect to www.dentonknifeworks.com/allsky/ in the home dir You should be able to look at your WEB site host and see if you have a home directory. I hope this makes some sense to you but as I say look at your host settings. My /home/ is transparent. Have you tried /home/ like mine above? I think it is a standard way of setup.

thomasjacquin commented 4 years ago

Yes, I think your issue is with the Path variables. They are the absolute paths on your server. For example, my keogram path is /lamp0/web/vhosts/www.thomasjacquin.com/htdocs/allsky/keograms. Use your favourite FTP software (FileZilla for example) to find the proper path. image

MichaelSkycam commented 4 years ago

Sorry Guys, but that doesn´t work.

Filezilla and Cyberduck only tells me that the Path to my Maindirectory is "/". Like I made it in the Ftp-Settings above. I contacted my Webhoster and they told me the real FTP-Path for example to the images-Dir is: /www/htdocs/[ftpuser]/[myhomepage.de]/allsky/images

So I tried this FTP-Settings:

PROTOCOL='sftp' USER='xxxxxxx' PASSWORD='xxxxxxxx' HOST='myhomepage.de' IMGDIR='/www/htdocs/[ftpuser]/[myhomepage.de]/images' MP4DIR='/www/htdocs/[ftpuser]/[myhomepage.de]/allsky/videos' KEOGRAM_DIR='/www/htdocs/[ftpuser]/[myhomepage.de]/allsky/keograms' STARTRAILS_DIR='/www/htdocs/[ftpuser]/[myhomepage.de]/allsky/startrails'

Nothing is getting uploaded with this settings. If I restart my Raspberry and use sudo service allsky status or watch in var/log/ I can only find this as latest Error: allsky allsky.sh[809]: can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable The Number [809] changes everytime.

Best regards Michael

ckuethe commented 4 years ago

I have some ideas about refactoring the upload feature because I'm not using ftp at all. Instead I use rsync or scp with key auth.

MichaelSkycam commented 4 years ago

Hello ckuethe,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunatly my coding skills are a bit weak, so I´ve no Idea huw to implement rsync or scp. I´m fine with ftp if it would be working.....

Best regrads Michael

ckuethe commented 4 years ago

Rsync is awesome. My upload command is roughly a 1-liner: rsync -e 'ssh -i /home/allsky/id_allsky' --partial --inplace -a /home/allsky/images/artifacts allsky@www:

but that's only because I control the whole infrastructure so I can use SSH key auth, and I can set the home directory for the allsky user on the www server to be the right path. But I think this will be an easy change with the new config file editing UI. Then it's basically "uncomment and edit a few variables in this section to use scp to upload to your webserver" or the equivalents for sftp, rsync, ...

MichaelSkycam commented 4 years ago

Thanks, that sounds interesting. But at the Moment I would be happy to get the FTP-Problem solved. Actually I´m quite lost. I hope I can get a few more Replies to solve this Riddle.

MichaelSkycam commented 4 years ago

I fixed it. In fact it was a Problem with the Paths, although I tried a Million Combinations. If someone uses the German Webhoster All-Inkl.com the correct ftp-settings are:

PROTOCOL='ftp' USER='[All-Inkl-User like w66oo66]' PASSWORD='All-Inkl FTP-Passwort' HOST='[All-inkl-User].kasserver.com' IMGDIR='/allsky/images' MP4DIR='/allsky/videos' KEOGRAM_DIR='/allsky/keograms' STARTRAILS_DIR='/allsky/startrails'