HW3php Trouble Shooting Guide

Below you will find a list of some of the common problem that may occur after installing HAMweather 3:

Trouble Shooting Server Errors:

404 Error (File Not Found)

The URL that you entered as the URL to the hw3.cgi in the hw3.ini is incorrect. Double check this setting.

403 Error (Forbidden)

Unix Servers: The permissions of the hw3.php and associated files should normally be set to have read permission (chmod 644). If your server runs php scripts as a CGI process then you may need to set the hw3.php to have read and execute permissions (chmod 755).  Note that many web servers will not run scripts with permissions of chmod 777 because of security reasons.

Windows Servers: The hw3.php  or HW3php directory may need to have executable permissions for scripts set with-in the IIS console.

Trouble Shooting Other Errors:

Cannot Connect to the IWIN and/or NWS servers error

• The National Weather service or IWIN server is down. This happens sometimes but is not often.  You can double check the HAMweather site to see if the main HAMweather demo is working. If it is then this most likely is not the problem. You can also try browsing to http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov and http://weather.noaa.gov to see if either of the web servers are down.
  
• If your server is behind a firewall then you will need to make sure the web server has access to fetch web pages from http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov, http://weather.noaa.gov and http://www.hamweather.net

Everything seems to be working except all images are broken:

• Check that the images were uploaded and uploaded in binary format.
• Check the "html_side_url"  setting in the "Paths" section of the configs/hw3.ini.php and make sure its a URL that points to the directory that the HW3images were uploaded too.