Activate CMX web locally /

[Zappastre]

Hi,

After hour fighting i do not undertand how new web works.

In earlier versions if I open index.html in my PC with all the json files in the same folder, the web page worked.

Now i want to do the same, but theweb pages appears in blank.

i have enabled "Enable file copy of standard files" in web settins, files json are updatin every 5 minutes, but i don't undertand how are to be placed the files locally to see how looks like. I see in htm that varibales are in some kind of array called data-cmxdata, How is it solved?

Mi idea is undertand how it works and complete an ols page with some of the gauges or graph data.

Any help?

[Zappastre]

Any help?

why webfiles locally do not solve data if json are well generated in folder web?

[SamiS]

I think it is not possible to open the new pages locally straight from filesystem, since the webpage can’t load the json data contained in separate file. Most likely it will need a webserver even for local access, just like the dashboard also is working. Not 100% sure though.

[HansR]

Could you check the the messages in the console (F12) in your browser when opening the website?
Give ctrl-F5 to restart and have a console refresh.

If anything relevant, please post a screen shot.

[Zappastre]

Could you check the the messages in the console (F12) in your browser when opening the website?
Give ctrl-F5 to restart and have a console refresh.

If anything relevant, please post a screen shot.

Thanks,

Console (F12) result:

index.htm:1 Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'file:///C:/TEST%20WEB%20CUM%20New/websitedata.json?_=1680298317810' from origin 'null' has been blocked by CORS policy: Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, isolated-app, chrome-extension, chrome, https, chrome-untrusted.

Consolo errors.png

With restart same error occur.

I will investigate, but i'm not a web programmer . Any thoughts?

[Zappastre]

As far as i see, I have to install a Webserver locally if i ant to test the web, do I?

Regards

[HansR]

As far as i see, I have to install a Webserver locally if i ant to test the web, do I?

I think so yes. The access to the URL is limited by the CORS strategy, I am not sure if that works with local files, apparently not. Maybe somebody else has a trick here? So far, from the users who implemented the local file do have a local server and FTP installed and I think they have no issues.

If you finally want to have a website hosted at a provider (i.e. not hosting it yourself) you might just as well use that hosted domain for the test as well.

[SamiS]

One resolution could be using the old style legacy website, that was present for some time after the new website design was released in 3.10.0 b3115. I haven’t tried it with mx, but if a local webserver is not an option, then this would make some info available.

Technically it would still also be possible to modify the new website at least partially to work as before, by replacing json data values with webtags and make the file as a processable template again. But it would need quite a bit tinkering.

[HansR]

One resolution could be using the old style legacy website, that was present for some time after the new website design was released in 3.10.0 b3115. I haven’t tried it with mx, but if a local webserver is not an option, then this would make some info available.

Yes, any HTML (no javascript [data]file loading) would work without a server, loads just as a file.

Technically it would still also be possible to modify the new website at least partially to work as before, by replacing json data values with webtags and make the file as a processable template again. But it would need quite a bit tinkering.

I am not sure of my English proverbs but wouldn't that be shooting a mosquito with a cannon? I would apply a variation to Occam's Razor: of all solutions possible choose the simplest. So without a server, leave the new standard website out.

[mcrossley]

What is the web site giving you locally that the dashboard doesn't - apart from a different presentation?

[mcrossley]

And there are lots of "mini" web servers that will serve up simple HTML from a command line program without having to install a full blown web server. I often use one for testing the default web site.

[water01]

shooting a mosquito with a cannon?

Never heard of that one Hans but you might mean "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut"!!

[SamiS]

What is the web site giving you locally that the dashboard doesn't - apart from a different presentation?

For me the different presentation would be the main thing. To see the same data that is on website’s index page, on dashboard you probably need to open four different pages (dashboard, now, gauges and today/yesterday), and for example consecutive dry/wet days is not presented at all.

[SamiS]

I am not sure of my English proverbs but wouldn't that be shooting a mosquito with a cannon? I would apply a variation to Occam's Razor: of all solutions possible choose the simplest. So without a server, leave the new standard website out.

I agree to that metaphor. But I’m not sure if this would be much a bigger job than many of us have done by translating the website to our own language. I’m not saying anyone should do the website code modification from json to old processable templates. But if a webserver would not be an option for some reason, and you still would want the default website, this would be one way to get it at least partially. Is there any sense in it, probably not. But I’m not here to judge how people want to spend their time.

[HansR]

shooting a mosquito with a cannon?

Never heard of that one Hans but you might mean "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut"!!

That's the one I was looking for. The mosquito/cannon one is the literal translation of Dutch analogon

I agree to that metaphor [...] But I’m not here to judge how people want to spend their time.

Agreed. But then the easiest way out is probably: make a simple site yourself.
I would say: if you still want the default website, get a (simple) server. Along what Mark says.
But even Apache is not that difficult to install, it only starts being complex when you start configuring.