Categories: Technical Posted by Bruce on 11/27/2011 5:05 PM | Comments (0)

I love me some freeware, this one is cool. It's called HTTrack Website Copier (http://www.httrack.com) and one of it's primary functions is to make copies of websites that can be stored on your local computer.

Why would you want this? In my case, I had several sites I wanted to take down from their current host while I set them up on another host. They were built using the host's proprietary tools (shopping cart included), so I didn't really have easy access to the source files.

If you have ever tried saving a web page from your browser's file menu, then you know it doesn't really save an accurate copy; links are often broken, pictures jacked up, etc. As far as I can tell, HTTrack provides all the options to pull down as much of a site as you want to your local drive, including images, even linked sites, etc. So what you end up with is a true local copy that is browseable and appears identically to its appearance on the day you saved it. Very nice.

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