UK Expert SEO

Hi, this is geek shout out to anyone having problems doing a flat html copy of your dynamic site form your localhost i.e your desktop PC

here is what I have done:

1. set up xaamp on my local machine (i do this usually becaseu it speeds up site theme building)
2. build the CMS, whatever flavour for the purposes of this blog post
3. download and install winhttrack
4. copy the local site onto a server where there is no ability to have a dynamic site… but where you like most of the dynamic stuff i..e navigation and so on

I’m doing all of the above on a client site.
Now here is the trick with winhttrack…

- you need to use your machines IP address as the source http:// location and make sure you do the same in your cms, so instead of the site being located in http://whatever it will be he IP address you have got from doing a check on your machine.

- make sure under the> set options > spider > 2nd drop down box > set the rule to no robots.txt (xaamp prevents the winhttrack from fully spidering the site)
IP lookup for pc’s : see here

winhttrack : see here

xaampp : see here
cms’s to try and download : opensourcecms.com