Saving an entire site offline

[Kelly_]

I'm having a really stupid day! I have to do a presentation tomorrow of a website I have done. There is no internet access in the room so I have to save the site offline. I have copied the site to a cd so all the folders and ASP files are there. So I need to open these files with IE but it won't. Dreamweaver isn't on the laptop either so its not as if I can preview the pages that way. I know there is a simple way to do it but I just can't think!!

Other than saving all the pages of the site individually how do I save the entire site so that I can just put a cd in the laptop and view the pages!!

I must be missing something... it's been a long day!

 

[sn00p]

This is what I used when I have to do that.

http://www.httrack.com/

There a windows port that's pretty easy to use.

 

[Kelly_]

sn00p you're a legend! Although when I just tried it said something about the mirrored object being empty. I need a break. Too much time at the pc is driving me insane!

 

[MikeDX]

You can download a program called wget, run it from commandline as follows:

wget http://www.somesite.com -m

and it will create a folder on your hard drive, a complete mirror of the site you want

I wouldnt advise doing it to large sites though... especially dynamically driven content wise

 

[sn00p]

sn00p you're a legend! Although when I just tried it said something about the mirrored object being empty. I need a break. Too much time at the pc is driving me insane!

From memory (I haven't got it in front of me) there's an option somewhere to disable "robots.txt", if might be that the site has that file to stop you grabbing it! Try turning that option off and have another go.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

We use HTTrack at work for this exact purpose, works a treat.

 

[Woodentop]

Yeah HTTrack is good.