Wget Expert Wanted

[lloyd_tennison]

I am moving some websites onto my server (not anyone that Whm can handle) and would like to be able to use wget and the ftp function - but I keep not having it recurse through all the directories. In wget with http, i.e.

wget -r -nc  -nH  -c http://www.mywebsite.net

works fine, but the same - with what seems to be the needed -l all that transfers are the Front Page folders (_vti..)

wget -r -l 5 -nc -c -nH ftp://user:[email protected]/public_html/

Anyone have any thoughts - as all the references that I Google seem to say this will work.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, just found out that (at least in http mode) it converts spaces in directory names to %20. Now I need to see if all links will work - or figure out how to search and replace in filename - with recursion...

 

[s_2_s]

i have a small humble suggestion

on 1st server

cd /home/usernamehere

tar -cvf public_html.tar public_html

mv public_html.tar www

on newserver

wget http://www.mywebsite.net/~usernamehere/public_html.tar

tar -xvf public_html.tar

 

[lloyd_tennison]

Do not have shell or ssh access on old server .

 

[djmerlyn]

Create a full backup of your site in Cpanel.

When its finished log in via FTP and copy the backup to www

Then do wget on yourdomain.com/backup_file_date_username.tar.gz

Then decompress it on the new server.

Make sure and delete the backup you moved from the old server so someone doesn't come by an download it.

 

[DigitalN]

Hello,

Try these - options too

To copy the whole site (including above the public_html)

wget --mirror -w 3 -p -P site_data_goes_here ftp://user:[email protected] (your IP)

Will copy all files from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to the directory site_data_goes_here

If you just want the html files from a site, no ftp login needed (all lower than public_html).. try

wget --mirror -w 2 -p --html-extension --convert-links -P site_data_goes_here http://www.your_domain.com

 

[djmerlyn]

To copy the whole site (including above the public_html)

wget --mirror -w 3 -p -P site_data_goes_here ftp://user:[email protected] (your IP)

I gave this a try today moving an account from a plesk server, it worked quite nicely

 

[lloyd_tennison]

Yes, it sure does! Thank you DigitalN.

 

[DigitalN]

Not a problem