Robster, where is the website stored? Is the hosting space controlled by your client or the cowboy?

If the hosting is inaccessible and the website use dynamic script, i don't think that you could solve that.

Originally Posted by Bagi Zoltán

Robster, where is the website stored? Is the hosting space controlled by your client or the cowboy?

If the hosting is inaccessible and the website use dynamic script, i don't think that you could solve that.

She has no control over the hosting, but the site is just plain HTML and images so its possible to do it, but its quite a big site so I want to avoid doing it manually.

Robster, if the website doesn't contain more than 200 pages the trial version of this tool will do the job.

Iv'e had similar experiences and have used a similar tool (Offline Explorer, I think).

Only problem was that the absolute paths in the files were re-written so I had to do a search and replace across all of the files. It'll take a while to do.

However, it might be worth simply ditching the site and moving to a CMs-based system which would offer a number of benefits. Number one would be that the client could update it herself in the future and could actually take some of the tedious work off of you copying and pasting content across from the old site to the new.

Just a thought

You're running Ubuntu?

Then write this in the console as the root:

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install webhttrack

This will install WebHTTrack, a site downloader. It's free and it works great!

WebHTTrack for me as well gets them everytime <cough> white hat of course LOL

I have had this trouble before now i have web site downloader which works pretty well i have to say just do a search for "web site downloader" great bit if software

If the domain name is registered on your clients name you might get the hosting company to give you the logins you need for the site. Probably you will have to give some proof, i mean your client, but there should be no problem.