Website Videos/Startrails/Keograms sections not displaying correctly

[Orlando-PB]

Hi, I've got the Allsky website running (on a remote server), and the main page works, however the sections that link to the Videos, Startrails and Keograms directories do not display correctly. When I installed the website repository, all that was in those folders was an index.php file showing:

<?php
$dir = ".";
$prefix = "startrails";
$title = "Startrails";
include_once("../show_thumbnails.php");
?>

And this text is all that displays on the website. I've got the files video files themselves working correctly as far as I know, but they are not shown at all.
http://allsky.astrobyorlando.com/ Here's my site site if it helps at all.
I removed the video index.php. in the video directory file just to see if the video files display (which they do)
The other's I left as they were.

Also, I don't know if it's related, but the Auroa data does now show when I have it enables, as you can see, it just says 'Aurora activity:' with no activity as shown on other websites

One last thing, is; the live image does not update unless the page is reloaded, I've seen some people have theirs updating, and I was wondering how that's done.

Thanks

[Orlando-PB]

I've managed to make the image refresh by just reloading the page every 30 seconds using: <meta http-equiv='refresh' content='30'> and it seems to work, maybe not the most efficient as it reloads the entire page, but better than nothing.

[EricClaeys]

@Orlando-PB It looks like you removed the "meta refresh" line. The image refresh is done in controller.js.

The Aurora Activity at the top of the screen is working now too. Did that get fixed when you installed PHP?

[Orlando-PB]

Yes, I removed the meta refresh once everything else was working. I'm not quite sure what fixed it. I think at some point I had but some value into the 'auoramap' config place, (in the documentation it says something about "north" or "south", but just leaving it as "" is what I should have done) so I think that may have stopped the aurora working, and also everything underneath it in the config file (mainly the refresh). Installing PhP also may have been part of fixing it. It was just interesting that almost all the site works without PhP, otherwise it would have been obvious what the issue was.

[Orlando-PB]

Okay. I don't know how it took me so long to figure this out. Turns out it helps having PHP installed when I want to run PHP files. At least it was an easy fix, super embarrassing though.

[EricClaeys]

@Orlando-PB Do you know why PHP wasn't installed? Are you running the "Lite" version of the operating system? I have never heard of anyone else with this problem.

[Orlando-PB]

I am using an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance to run the website. The Pi is on University Wifi, so there is no way for me to port forward to the Pi's public IP. On the ubuntu install, I had to upgrade everything, install pip, git, vsftpd, php, apache2, and the gd library wasn't working at first either. Also rebooting the server a few times helped, which I had not done at all before. There was lots of information about installing the allsky software on the Pi, and getting the webGUI working, but not too much for the website, especially not for using it on another machine, so I found it much more difficult to setup than the rest, which was super easy. (It's my first time using linux and github though, so other users may find this all obvious). I would be up for writing a short guide on how to use another server to host the website if it would be helpful for people.