Re: mirroring a site locally using wget?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:13:16AM -0400, Zach Uram wrote:
> How exactly can I do this:
> 
> There is a website I wish to mirror. It has many pages and images and
> it uses CSS.
> 
> I wish to run wget and have it:
> 1) download all HTML/CSS/images
> 2) uses local references so <A
> HREF="http://site.org/images/image.jpg";> will be saved as <A
> HREF="images/image.jpg">
> 3) do the same thing for CSS etc.

Here is an example of a command we use to mirror a website.  See the manpage for
the meaning of the switches.  Don't just copy the command.  For other websites
we use less switches and different ones:

/usr/bin/wget -E -np -r -k -K -N -l inf http://<website>  &> /home/ftpadm/logs/websitename.log

Regards
Johann

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