How do I download my site to burn to disc for offline presentation?

Posted by brianestadt on October 27, 2006 at 11:57pm

I have an event tomorrow morning at which there will be no Internet access, but I would like to be able to show people the site on laptops. Which directories would I download so I could burn to a CD to demonstrate the site? Thanks for your help.

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Not that simple

Posted by Michelle on October 28, 2006 at 1:14am

This isn't static HTML... You can't just copy files to a CD. You need to have a webserver, php, and a database running on your laptop.

You could have a look at http://www.ratatosk.net/software/onastick/ and http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html .

Michelle

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How about a WAMP installation?

Posted by glendac on October 28, 2006 at 3:03am

If your laptop is running on Windows, you can consider doing a WAMP installation which you can download from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wamp-server/. You would then have to install and configure your Drupal files on that server PLUS the database from your current site which is not a joke to do especially that you are pressed with time.

One thing I suggest is to make screenshots of your site and build your presentation around them. [Isn't it amazing that there are still events where there is no Internet access?]

Glenda

i think the question asker

Posted by VM on October 28, 2006 at 3:13am

i think the question asker wanted to to put it on a CD to avoid having to install something like wamp on labtops that wasnt his own. in essense he wants to show of drupal without having to set up a local server on every ones machine.

at which point michelle is 100% correct, without access to a DB, the stick is the only way to go, unless of course you wanted to take responsibility to install a local host on ever machine of the people you speak of showing drupal.

Well, you could use a site

Posted by cog.rusty on October 28, 2006 at 3:37am

Well, you could use a site ripper, there are several open source ones. But it would have to find links to follow.

Wget

Posted by dman on October 28, 2006 at 4:01am

Static of course, and without user logins etc, but you can easily get a snapshot by going

wget -k -m -r http://localhost/

wget is available on most linux installs, and I imagine the cygwin distro too.

For a nice Windows spider, I historically used websnake.

There's nothing specifically within Drupal, but no harm in using one of these external tools.

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PortableApps.com to the

Posted by Muslim guy on October 28, 2006 at 6:19am

PortableApps.com to the rescue

http://portableapps.com/apps

You would want to have the small 16 MB XAMPP which has nifty PHPmyAdmin

Then you will install a Drupal site on localhost, create a MySQL database and connect to Drupal site by editing the sites/default/settings.php specifiying db name and password, and URL is
http://localhost:8080/mydrupal

Maybe skip 8080 if not working

If you are not familiar with Drupal manual installation, then try Drupal 5.0 with `magic isntaller' or better - CivicspaceLabs.org package which is auto installed and has interesting features you can boast of

*If using Drupal 47.x and you already has content, ou can use the Portable XAMPP (PHPmyAdmin) to upload the .sql file and connect it to a Drupal on your pC

Good luck

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EasyPHP

Posted by seanenroute on October 28, 2006 at 6:50am

I use a product called EasyPHP (www.EasyPHP.com) for running drupal on my laptop. You'll need to make a copy of your database and then copy the information onto the MySQL running through EasyPHP. The rest of the files will just go in the "www" folder complete. Everything then runs through localhost.

For a static copy of your page

Posted by suit4 on November 21, 2006 at 9:24am

For a static and working copy of your page (there will be no dynamic content creation!), you can try httrack.
httrack is a website copier. It makes a static shot of your website.

Because this is a command line tool, you should get a little practice on how to using it right. Otherwise httrack spiders your page, the pages you are linking to and their page, they are linked with. (With a little patience you can make a copy of Google!)

I know, your presentation has already happened, but there is always a next presentation.

Get it here: http://www.httrack.com/

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httrack rocks

Posted by texas-bronius on January 2, 2007 at 8:39pm

I struck this thread looking for how to get wget to behave for me, but I think httrack is going to do it.

suit4- thanks for the tip! httrack is incredible! Simple to use, and it picks up @import'd css's, etc as individual files, reproduces some directory structure as needed... That was my initial reaction (have not piddled with any options), and it will be perfect for my temp mirror'ing while my drupal site is under development.

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