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* Relative paths (without a leading slash) are always safer than absolute paths (with a leading slash) and you may find that just specifying (for example) "public_html" works OK, but this all depends on how your ftp server and your ftp account is set up.
* The host name should be associated with a particular entry point into the web server, so any directory entered into the settings should be a path relative to that entry point. The entry point for FTP may be different to the entry point for displaying web pages.
== Content missing from web server ==
This catch-all section covers everything from problems with not setting up web site to not uploading the right files at the interval you want them to be uploaded.
=== Answers ===
#All the files and folders ''within'' the '''CumulusMX/webfiles''' folder need to be transferred to your web server in a one-off operation. MX does not include a facility to do this. See the [[Website setup|setting up a web site]] page in this wiki.
#In the admin interface, settings tab, select the Internet settings screen, in the second section '''Web/FTP settings''', you can choose what MX does upload for you:
#*'''Auto update''' - this needs to be ticked for MX to upload anything for you at the standard processing and uploading interval
#*'''Include standard files''' - this is ticked for MX to process and upload the standard web templates to create web pages on your web server. The templates must be in the '''CumulusMX/web''' folder.
#**Cumulus 1 in earlier versions created an empty web page if any of the standard web templates did not exist
#**Cumulus 1 in later versions does not attempt to upload a web page if the relevant web template does not exist
#**Cumulus MX will issue an error message if, when it tries to process all of the web templates, any are missing
#*'''Include graph data files''' - this is ticked if you want MX to generate JSON files (these will be created in the '''CumulusMX/web''' folder, so that folder must exist) and upload them to your web server (at the Realtime interval if that is enabled lower down this screen)
#*'''Include Moon image file''' - there is a separate setting that controls whether MX creates updated moon images each hour, but this setting controls whether that image is uploaded to your web server each time MX updates the image.
#* Somewhat lower down the screen is the '''Upload interval''' text box where you specify the interval between standard uploads, it is an error to make it blank or set it to zero! The default is every 15 minutes.
#*'''Enable Realtime''' option, if you don't tick that, either the standard uploading interval will be used for files that can be processed at this interval, or the files will not be processed.
#*'''Enable realtime FTP''' - this option is ticked to get MX to use FTP to transfer any files you select to be updated at this interval
#*'''Realtimegauges.txt''' - this option is ticked for MX to create and upload the file that the Gauges web page provided with MX needs for it to actually display your data.
=== The bird image on standard web pages ===
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