Comments on: How to easily mirror an entire web site locally

By: medspharmacysupport

medspharmacysupport — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:48 +0000

This will download the entire site on your local drive in a directory named the websites URL… note that this isn’t a particularly effective way to truly backup a website and it’s functionality, it’s simply mirroring it locally.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:52:13 +0000

httrack is much better for mirroring websites.
Also available through MacPorts.
Personally, I’ve downloaded the entire internet. It is *much*
faster to browse that way.

By: praca magisterska

praca magisterska — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:12:30 +0000

hi,

I always used wget with -rxk options, result similar

By: best websites

best websites — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:00:31 +0000

Great tip, I will try it, thanks!

By: Jerid Hill

Jerid Hill — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:58:44 +0000

Thanks! Adding products to a shopping cart takes a little too long and I’d rather do it locally!

By: saintberry

saintberry — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:58:12 +0000

Jerid, if you want to sync local and remote directories use rsync. It is actually included in 10.5 by default. If you are game with the command line man rsync, otherwise check the internet for tutorials.

By: Jerid Hill

Jerid Hill — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:01:46 +0000

Couple of questions:

1. If I mirror my site locally, can I make changes locally and sync it using terminal?

2. What if my site is using a database on a separate server?

By: james

james — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:20:28 +0000

Of course first you have to istall macports

By: CB

CB — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:43:52 +0000

Got Deep Vacuum… GUI to wget

By: CB

CB — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:12:53 +0000

When I type sudo port install wget, I get

sudo: port: command not found

By: james

james — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:07:52 +0000

sudo port install wget

By: saintberry

saintberry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:15:51 +0000

I didn’t think wget was included in 10.5 by default. Well it wasn’t for me at least, OS X is missing a tone of great *nix command line tools.

If the above command gives you a command not found error you will need to download and install a wget binary or compile it from source. The latter can be done easily with a package manager like macports.