FHEMWEB Howto

Starting

For a start create a minimal fhem config file fhem.cfg, like the following:

    attr global logfile /tmp/fhem.log
    attr global modpath /usr/local/lib
    attr global port 7072 global
    attr global statefile /tmp/fhem.state

    define WEB FHEMWEB 8083 global

It is important that the modpath contains a directory called FHEM, where all the necessary modules and other files are present, these modules should not be found directly in modepath. Usually these are all the files from the fhem package FHEM directory and webfrontend/pgm2 directory, and some files from the contrib directory.
The logfile and the statefile should be changed from /tmp to a more stable directory, e.g. /var/log/FHEM or alike.
Now you can start fhem via:

      perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg

The logfile should look like:

      2008.06.15 16:17:03 2: FHEMWEB port 8083 opened
      2008.06.15 16:17:03 0: Server started (version ...)

You can connect to the server either via telnet (type a return after you get the connection):

telnet localhost 7072

or a little bit nicer via an internet browser: