Hi, I suspect this is a really thick newbie problem, apologies.
I am trying to download the entire https://raleightwenty.webs.com/ because it's future is in jeopardy and it is filled with really useful knowledge. I've downloaded using HTTrack on Linux, but the password protected pages aren't captured. I'm now using Windows 10, and Webcopy version 1.8.0.652. My initial aim in Webcopy is to download just the non-password protected part of the website.
Tutorial 1 was successful, so I just used default everything (which seems appropriate for the task) for https://raleightwenty.webs.com/ and let it run overnight. After 1.79GB accumulated I looked at the local version index.htm in Firefox. It was a text type version with some sort of formatting missing, and all the links go stright to the web version of the pages not the local ones. Chrome did similar - weirdly, it wouldn't load index.htm, it just sat trying, but I opened other local pages OK - all links went to the web. I can open the other pages and so plenty of content is downloaded.
One odd thing which is probably unrelated:
In Tutorial 3, the "adding a new rule" uses gifs as an example. It also says that the tutorial assumes that the steps in Tutorial 1 have been taken (i.e. copying of https://demo.cyotek.com/). But my copy of Tutorial 1 of that site doesn't have any gifs in it -so this is a strange choice. Unless my Tutorial 1 copy hasn't been done right (162 files, 2.5MB).
I'd be really grateful for some pointers on this.
Hello,
Firstly, trying to mix and match copies made by different applications possibly won't work if you try to merge them together - WebCopy could name local files differently to HTTrack.
I've had a look at the website you mentioned, and unfortunately it isn't a newbie problem as far as I can see. I did a partial copy of the website - I excluded forums, photos and member profiles.
In regards to the blank page when loading, I observed this with Chromium Edge but also noted that eventually it did load - quite strange, I don't know what is happening with that. Firefox loaded it fine. Although the pages still have JavaScript which references the original site in various forms.
Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce the problem you encountered, all the pages I've download have local links and while formatting isn't consistent it does match the source pages.
I need to do another test where I include a single photo gallery and forum topic to double check those but in the meantime if you can specify the URLs of pages you explicitly had issues with, this may help me narrow things down.
Finally, thanks for pointing out the error in the tutorial, I'll get that corrected.
Regards;
Richard Moss