modify /etc/hosts temporarily on the computer you are running wget
to add a line similar to
1.2.3.4 sitename.com # temporary hack to get new web site
pull the files then remove that line from /etc/hosts. this assumes
that /etc/hosts has precedence over dns (and yp or whatever) on your
machine; most do.
Jim
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Kelly Jones wrote:
> I'm moving a site from one server to another, and want to use "wget
> -m" combined w/ "diff -auwr" to help make sure the site looks the same
> on both servers.
>
> My problem: "wget -m sitename.com" always downloads the site at its
> *current* IP address. Can I tell wget: "download sitename.com, but
> pretend the IP address of sitename.com is ip.address.of.new.server
> instead of ip.address.of.old.server. In other words, suppress the DNS
> lookup for sitename.com and force it to use a given IP address.
>
> I've considered kludges like using "old.sitename.com" vs
> "new.sitename.com", editing "/etc/hosts", using a proxy server, etc,
> but I'm wondering if there's a clean solution here?
>
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