Thanks for the lead - After a quick initial test, it looks like TPP will do exactly what I need. Much easier to use than Wget, and the pages are actually working after download.
Best, aaron On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Roman Muntyanu <[email protected]>wrote: > You could try something like > http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm > Just make sure the user has read-only rights, because TPP clicks all the > links :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Ashtar Communications > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 05:11 AM > To: XWiki Users > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] off-line-Version of XWiki > > Stephanie, > > I'm also very interested in anything you come up with, or whether anyone > has additional thoughts on making an "offline" copy. I'm not sure whether > my situation is similar to yours or not, but I'll explain a few things I've > tried so far in case it helps either of us. > > Short version - has anyone successfully used Wget to mirror an XWiki > instance? > > What I ultimately would like is an offline archive of an XWiki instance > that is totally independent of needing a servlet container or database > (even standalone). > > I understand Arnaud's suggestion to use a standalone XWiki instance to > create an offline backup, but unfortunately that is too complicated for > most of my users to access. > > In my circumstance, I have an XWiki instance that needs to "reset" at the > beginning of each year, and then need to keep an archive of each full > year's worth of contributions to the wiki. So I end up with a separate > XWiki database for each year. This is quickly becoming cumbersome and > eating up a lot of server resources to keep all of them online. > > I would like for an average user to be able to download an "archive" of a > particular year's wiki instance so I no longer need to host it "live." > > One other consideration - almost all of the page content in each wiki > instance is stored in objects attached to each page that are then retrieved > with velocity and formatted with javascript. And most pages have a large > number of attachments. > > Things I have tried: > > 1) HTML/PDF export - Like Stephanie, this doesn't work for me since it > doesn't maintain navigation or scripting. > > 2) Standalone XWiki instance - this has proved just too complicated for my > users. I'd prefer some type of archive in a flat file/HTML format if at all > possible. > > 3) Wget - This seems to be the most promising option so far, since it's > supposed to make a totally offline recursive mirror of the site. My > attempts so far have been mixed - I can get some of the page content to > download, but struggle with getting a completely working copy. I've also > tried a few other "offline archiver" type programs, but none have worked > better than Wget. If someone has successfully used Wget to mirror an XWiki > site, I'd love to hear about it. > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > > aaron > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Arnaud bourree <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Off-line: XWiki is off-line: you don't need internet to run XWiki > > excepted for some connected extension. > > More than Off-line, we may want portable XWiki instance you can put on > > usb pen-drive. > > IMO, standalone XWiki is ready for that. > > OK, You want to put a copy of your XWiki server in you pen-drive ... > > - made you standalone XWiki read-only to not resynchronize back to > > your server > > - after dump of your server database, you have to convert it to > > Hslqdb, or you write Event listener extension to propagate page update > > from server to pen-drive. Database conversion looks more easy to do > > > > Regards, > > > > Arnaud. > > > > 2013/1/23 <[email protected]>: > > > Hello again! > > > > > > I would like to make a xwiki-instance accessible off-line. I tried > > > to > > export > > > everything as HTML with rather bad results as the navigation and the > > > scripting isn't exported. So the idea was to somehow export xwiki to > > > some standalone version. Has anyone ever done something like this > > > and wouldn't mind sharing his/her inside thoughts? > > > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > > > Stephanie > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
