SID-01576: Export a web to static HTML

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.8
Category:	CategoryPlugins	Server OS:	RH7	Last update:	13 years ago

The PublishContrib is no longer maintained and PublishWebPlugin is now suggested to save static html,

but what is the recommeneded method of exporting an entire web with topics and attachments as static html in a tar or zip file?

Ideally we would like to run a script by cron it occassionaly produce a static version of a web

thanks in advance for suggestions

-- PeterJones - 2012-11-02

Discussion and Answer

I recommend to:

• Install and configure the PublishWebPlugin
• Manually publish the pages of that web once (after that, html pages are updated on each topic save)
• Install a cron to zip the html root directory

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-11-02

Thanks for the feedback. Nearly there but it is not clear how to make the initial publish of all current pages. The doc says to include

%PUBLISHWEB{"publish" topic="Name"}%

What does this mean though , do I have to include the in just the preferences or in one topic? Then what needs to be viewed in order to create the html ?

-- PeterJones - 2012-11-05

Copy the WebPublish topic (located in the distribution) to your publish web, go to that topic, select "all" to publish all. For convenience add a link to this topic in the top-menu.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-11-05

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