Downloading an Old Website - Possible?

Louey37

Louey37

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I've just purchased a dropped domain and I really want to get the old website back up and running on it. It's an HTML website and I've found all the content through archive.org.

This might seem like a retarded question but is it possible to just 'download' the old website?

Someone mentioned that I might be able do it if I can find the old IP address that it was hosted on.

I just want to get the old site back up and start throwing some links at it to try and keep the PR. Then, once G is recognising that it's still the same, 301 it through and take the MASSIVE amount of link juice running to it.

Is it possible? Anyone done anything like this before? Is there some software I need to do this?
 


I have set it up on another platform but the links are all pointed to www.xxxx.com/xxxxx.html.

They don't actually reach a wordpress page set up with the same file name (as they're not .html pages). I want the google to see that the old pages are up so I can see if the links will fire up again because there's SERIOUS link juice in these bad boys.
 
indeed, httrack will download anything and create a static functional html site from any site that is reachable

if that site is currently not reachable anymore I don't see how you can download it

if it was hosted on a cpanel server and if it has not been deleted by the admin it can be accessed via thisdomain.usermaindomain.tld or servername.hostname.tld/~accountname/directoryofthewebsite but I doubt you have access to this kind of information

you can often find out servername.hostname.tld by doing a traceroute to the IP

or you can try archive.org
 
Thanks mate. I'll check it out.

Archive.org seems to have everything I need to I'll go through there and see if I can get httrack.com to work.


L.
 
I didn't have much luck using HT Track when trying to accomplish the same thing. My old sites didn't have many pages; I just saved each one, stripped the Archive code, uploaded to my server.
 
Icecube said:
indeed, httrack will download anything and create a static functional html site from any site that is reachable

if that site is currently not reachable anymore I don't see how you can download it

if it was hosted on a cpanel server and if it has not been deleted by the admin it can be accessed via thisdomain.usermaindomain.tld or servername.hostname.tld/~accountname/directoryofthewebsite but I doubt you have access to this kind of information

you can often find out servername.hostname.tld by doing a traceroute to the IP

or you can try archive.org
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This..

But, for old sites, you have to practically rebuild it manually


The .html isn't really a problem.
Go to settings and in the custom permalink, add a .html

/%postname%.html
 
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blogspotter said:
The .html isn't really a problem.
Go to settings and in the custom permalink, add a .html

/%postname%.html
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You're a genuis. A bloody genuis. This worked. It's saved me hours and hours of work trying to pull down and upload new sites.

Thank you.
 
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