itotallyjustmadethisup

I’m going to put this thread down as resolved.

The final verdict: I couldn’t find a suitable way to convert the entire site to flat html for serving on a server that doesn’t support php or mysql.

There was some hope in wget and httrack but they weren’t 100% effective.

The final wget incarnation was ultimately unsuccessful

wget --html-extension --recursive --page-requisites --mirror <site-location>

Although this was successful in downloading all the requisite HTML pages it did not grab up the images found in the themes/default/images folder.

I suspect this has something to do with the internal workings of wget and the fact that these images are referenced in the HTML as

#page { background: url("http://<your_site>/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }

Also, I looked into httrack but unfortunately it seemed to generate some spurious files that I wouldn’t want to upload to the simple server. For example two files named ‘new java.net.URL(window.location.html’ and ‘GET.html’ which are simply non-existent files on the local installation and thus show only 404 responses.

wget seems to offer the best route but I can’t seem to get it to see the linked images somehow. Sure I could specifically copy over the folder but ideally this should be a fairly simple fix that others could implement in the future.

Perhaps some input on how to get wget to recognize the image links? Or maybe another program that would do what I’m trying to?

Thanks all.

I looked into wp-cache and staticize but they’re not going to fit my needs.

Namely the server I’m trying to transfer all my files to (as flat HTML files) doesn’t support php. So the output files with .php endings won’t work.

Any other input would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Take care.