Saturday, August 8, 2009

How to copy an entire website into usable uploadable files to upload onto another server ?

I need to move my website and I originally built it with a webbuilder. I tried saving each page %26quot;Save As%26quot; (F.Fox) but then I uploaded them ftp onto the domain ip and all that appeared was a file line for each. Actually I want to clean it up with tidy and change it into xhtml. I went from web builder to php so I don%26#039;t even know how to use my html editor. I found the clean up mark up but nothing to change it into xhtml. I have NVU maybe it dosen%26#039;t have this feature. I%26#039;m waiting to get accepted by the admin so I can access support.



How to copy an entire website into usable uploadable files to upload onto another server ?





A website is nothing more than a collection of files that are linked together. The easiest way to copy this is simply to copy all of the files as they exist on the current server to the new server, keeping the same directory structure. There is nothing special you need to do. Just move them like you would any other files. Of course, the new server has to be setup as a domain server just like the old server in order to act as a web server and if names are changing, depending on how you built the website, you may have to change links within those pages. All of these pages can then be opened up by any html editor and edited as necessary.

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