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How can I download a website

Hello Experts!

I am exploring options here. Approximately 5 years ago we paid a hosting company to develop a website for us. We provided content and direction. Well, we hit a couple of red flags with this company and would like to move our site away from them and go with another hosting company (not yet researched at this point). Just to be on the safe side, I want to copy the website before we decide to have our initial conversation with the current company so we aren't being held hostage (our bill is current)

Are there any applications that will copy the whole website locally? (It errors out when I try to make the website available off line).

Thank you!

Fox

PS any recommendations for a hosting company that does excellent ecommerce would be great!

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jason987

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Michael701

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Dave Baldwin

With 'ecommerce', you will need FTP and database/MySQL access like @Michael701 said to back up the site and content. And hosting companies usually don't 'do ecommerce', they rent you space and time on their servers so you can 'do ecommerce'.

That said, what kinds of issues are you having with them?

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Alan

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jason987

Oops missed the php part. Yea, wget won't do what you want because you will only be presented with the HTML and not the PHP running server side.

iamozymandias

I've used the tool Alan3285 suggested. Works well. I like it.

Dave Baldwin

I've HTTrack a lot but it only gets the publicly visible part of the website. It can not get the PHP code that drives the site.

jeremyjared74

If you have access to the WordPress Admin eg; http://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin, there are a few different plug-ins that will let you download the files, and the database. I would use these if I didn't have access to my server via FTP and PHPmyAdmin to backup the files and Database.

Let me know if you have access to the Admin area of WordPress and I will send you links to the plug-ins, or if you have access to the Database I will explain how to back-up your site.

teodor birca

I used with success Teleport Pro .. of course if site is PHP & MYSQL you need FTP and PHPmyadmin access.
You could use also a free tool like : http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Server-Management/PHP-Website-Backup-122.html
or http://www.mcmwebsite.com/free-backup-software.html

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Brad Brett

If you are using cPanel, there is a wizard you can use:
http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/BackupWizard

If you are not using cPanel, you can copy all the PHP script in "www" (public_html) to your local storage and use phpMyAdmin to export the database.

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the_b1ackfox

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Hello all, thank you for participating in this discussion. I tried to award points based on original discussion points and subject matter.

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fair and balanced