I noticed yesterday that the weather forecast on my Web site was almost 24 hours out of date.\u00a0 I looked through my log files and saw that I was getting a 403 error which means access denied or a permissions problem.\u00a0 When I browsed to the same pages using a browser I was able to access them just fine.\u00a0 I was also able to use wget to retrieve the pages. I decided it might be a problem where PHP was not sending a user agent header and the NWS Web server was looking for one.\u00a0 I added a user agent header to all of my pages that retrieve weather data from the NWS and everything is back up and running again.<\/p>\n
I’ve also noticed, but nor done anything about two of my other pages,\u00a0 The RSS feeds I was using for local alerts and traffic information no longer operate as the feeds have been discontinued.\u00a0 I put a message on the pages and will need to search for a new source of traffic and alert information.<\/p>\n
Other than that the station has been running on auto-pilot for quite a few months now.,\u00a0 I’m probably overdue for some type of hardware failure but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I noticed yesterday that the weather forecast on my Web site was almost 24 hours out of date.\u00a0 I looked through my log files and saw that I was getting a 403 error which means access denied or a permissions … Continue reading