Obtain a wiki its HTML pages

Summary:

How to store a wiki as a local HTML website?

Obtain a wiki its HTML pages

Bilderbikkel 16 Jan 2012 10:22

Dear all,

I love wikidot.com and I'd like to use it for my (small) company. Because sometimes we have to go to places without (affordable) internet, I'd like to store the wiki locally on a laptop. wikidot.com does have the possibility to make a backup of the wiki its contents, but this is too limited: I'd like to have a working local (probably read-only) HTML site from a wiki.

Is this possible?

Cheers, Richel Bilderbeek

Re: Obtain a wiki its HTML pages

Ed Johnson 16 Jan 2012 13:41

I've had some success using HTTrack Website Copier with some Wikidot sites. You won't be able to edit anything, but should be able to navigate your site while offline. From HTTrack's web site:

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online.

Be sure to fully test things after making a copy. If your site is private, you may have problems browsing the copy of the site. It's been a while since I've used it and I've always copied public sites, so I'm not sure how it will handle a private site. As I recall, you won't be able to log in to the offline copy.

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Re: Obtain a wiki its HTML pages

Helmuti_pdorf 16 Jan 2012 16:02

Works well and looks good!
( Win Vista… ) lot of pages / Files created…

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Re: Obtain a wiki its HTML pages

Bilderbikkel 20 Jan 2012 10:50

Thanks for the answer! Sadly, it does not work on private sites :-(