#Sitesucker alternative archive#

SiteSucker lets you set options for a download (you can save your custom presets if you like), and then it gives a good overview of the entire download process: 2 - Download a verbatim copy of the site with SiteSuckerР”В¬LI utilities like HTTrack and wget can be used to download a site, using a specific set of parameters to make sure the download is executed correctly, but since I only convert one or two sites per year, I like the easier interface provided by SiteSucker. The page above has some good guidelines, but basically, you need to make sure to all the 'dynamic' aspects of the site are disabled-turn off all forms, turn off modules that use AJAX requests (like Fivestar voting), turn off search (if it's using Solr or Drupal's built-in search), and make sure AJAX and exposed filters are disabled in all views on the site-a fully static site doesn't support this kind of functionality, and if you leave it in place, there will be a lot of broken functionality. 1 - Disable forms and any non-static-friendly modules I though I'd document my own workflow for converting typical Drupal 6 and 7 sites to static HTML to be served up on a simple Apache or Nginx web server without PHP, MySQL, or any other special software, since I do a few special things to preserve the original URL alias structure, keep CSS, JS and images in order, and make sure redirections still work properly. ), or the event for which the site was created has long since passed (e.g. The page references tools and techniques to take your dynamically-generated Drupal site and turn it into a static HTML site with all the right resources so you can put the site on mothballs.Р”Р‡rom time to time, one of Midwestern Mac's hosted sites is no longer updated (e.g.

#Sitesucker alternative archive#

has an excellent resource page to help you create a static archive of a Drupal site.