Flattening a websitey

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> I have a strange, interesting problem.  I have a dynamic website which
> is going to stop being dynamic - it will no longer be updated in the
> future, but we'd like to keep it up and running, rather than going dark.
>
> The dynamic nature of the site is pretty simple - just a content
> management system.
>
> I was wondering - could you put squid in front of this site, hit it with
> a crawler, and then replace the old site with the contents of the cache?
> Is this a sane approach?
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.  Thanks!

    I'd use wget -r to duplicate the site locally and replace it with
    that.

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