[Neil DeMarco]

Our local museum has asked me to provide them with a copy on disk of my local history website (www.cheshamatwar.com)so that they can run this through a PC in the museum. I'm not sure how feasible this is. I've tried using WinHTTrack to download the website to my PC but this stopped after about 20 seconds because, I think, of all the broken links (about 200, it seems). I don't have time to fix all these (even if I could). Is there a solution - apart from the museum having an internet connection?

[Dan Moorhouse]

I'm working on the assumption that you don't have a copy of the site stored on your hard drive....

Use FTP? If so, download the lot onto a CD / DVD.

Otherwise try a 'web grabber' - something like this (I haven;t used this software and haven't a clue how well it works but do know its been used to grab my site a few times!)

[Neil DeMarco]

Dan Moorhouse, on 24 October 2009 - 09:11 PM, said:

I'm working on the assumption that you don't have a copy of the site stored on your hard drive....

I do have a copy of the website on my laptop but I don't see how I can get this to look exactly as it would do if someone were using it on the net with all the links, video files etc. It needs to be accessed via a touchscreen monitor which we are supplying the museum as part of our humanities specialism community project. Basically, no-one in the school seems to have a clue about this and the IT dept. aren't really interested...

[Andrew Field]

The problem is that some aspects of the website will actually require a web server. When there is a connection you can rely on the internet to take care of this, but if you don't have access to the internet, you'd need to get your IT people to setup a local web server.

I would suggest that the best solution would be to:

1. Setup an apache / php / mysql local webserver - something like http://www.ruhanirab...-for-usb-disks/ or http://www.chsoftwar...mowes/mowes.htm

2. Copy all your files across to the local computer

3. View the website via a browser.

The problem is that you might get people fiddling around with the machine while it is on display. Some museums seem to use very locked down computers that cannot be fiddled with, but I suspect there is a great added cost for such things.

[Neil DeMarco]

Andrew Field, on 25 October 2009 - 03:01 PM, said:

The problem is that some aspects of the website will actually require a web server. When there is a connection you can rely on the internet to take care of this, but if you don't have access to the internet, you'd need to get your IT people to setup a local web server.

I would suggest that the best solution would be to:

1. Setup an apache / php / mysql local webserver - something like http://www.ruhanirab...-for-usb-disks/ or http://www.chsoftwar...mowes/mowes.htm

2. Copy all your files across to the local computer

3. View the website via a browser.

The problem is that you might get people fiddling around with the machine while it is on display. Some museums seem to use very locked down computers that cannot be fiddled with, but I suspect there is a great added cost for such things.

Thanks, Andrew. I've just got back from a brief sojourn in Wales but will print this off for the attention of our humanities technician (a benefit of humanities specialist status) since he is likely to understand this.