Hi St�phane,

Thanks again for your response. It seems that the solution you suggested
will be really too long for us.

I tried to install WebRaptor (public version) but unfortunately it didn't
work (I saw the same error message in the dev-list but no answer to fix
it...) and I got no error message into tomcat or jahia logs...

Anyway, I don't have time, so I'm trying to figure out if it may help me ?
May I use that portlet in order to import static html pages into Jahia ? If
yes, does WebRaptor import content and images into Jahia or does it only
make some external links to the remote web site ?
Of course, I guess that I will have to rebuild all the links at least...

Thank you,
Olivier.

> First of all let's say that we never implemented such a 
> solution on our 
> side. This should just be a possible way of doing it. 
> However, given the 
> many criteria in order to apply it (cf. below), most of our customers 
> finally preferred manually migrating their content (and by 
> the way, taking 
> the time to delete or clean outdated content, modify or restructe the 
> navigation, enter new metadata or categories, etc...). So 
> they kept their 
> old HTML pages on a front-end Apache server while moving 
> their migrated 
> content section by section once converted to Jahia. Meanwhile 
> they made 
> some static cross-references to the ols static content within 
> their new 
> sites... This is certainly the most easy way to migrate lot 
> of content.
> 
> Then if we come back to the suggested solution, you will have 
> to make a 
> script which:
> 1) crawl and capture your existing sitemap (which page is 
> linked to which one)
> 2) remove the existing navigation, header, footer,... This 
> may already be a 
> tough step especially if you have not used generic templates 
> to make your 
> site... Then what is a menu, what is just a list of 
> cross-links to other 
> pages, how to automatically remove it, etc...
> 3) Parse and clean the result with some tools such as Tidy
> 4) Upload all the binary files and images on the Jahia webDAV 
> server and 
> rewrite all the url to point to the Jahia DAV server
> 5) Make a script in Jahia to a) create a new page according 
> to the sitemap 
> defined in 1 and b) import the cleaned HTML fragment (cf. 3) 
> in a Jahia big 
> text (e.g. the central column).
> 
> But all this process is only possible if all your HTML pages 
> are quite 
> generic enough in order to be able to remove all what needs 
> to be removed 
> and to easily find the existng navigation path within. If you 
> have lots of 
> different "templates" with links pointing to other pages a 
> bit everywhere 
> directly hardcoded in the text and so on... this will become 
> quite a mess 
> to automate it.
> 
> Finally this will never import 100% of your content. There 
> will be a lot of 
> exceptions to treat manually. So you will have to really 
> evaluate the cost 
> of developing and testing all this automated migration + 
> reviewing the 
> exceptions + then finally remigrating your content a bit 
> later to some 
> other more structured templates versus keeping it in HTML for 
> a while and 
> directly manually migrating section by section of your sites (or to 
> outsource such a task in some more affordable off-shore countries) by 
> beginning by the most urgent ones...
> 
> Good chance!
> St�phane

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