Flattening a website

[Myles Braithwaite]

You could just use wget to get a mirror copy of the site:

wget -m -k -K -E http://example.com/

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Myles Braithwaite
me-qIX3qoPyADtH8hdXm2+x1laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org
http://mylesbraithwaite.com/

Please consider the trees before print this email.

On 16-Apr-09, at 3:16 PM, 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!
> -- 
>
> yours,
>
> William
>

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