Help Cloning a Website

by pablo4103

Posted: 14 years ago 11 replies

PROGRAMMING

A merchant that I signed up owns the domain name but cannot access the files to transfer to a new hosting company.

Hosting company does not answer or return his calls.

Is there anyway we can clone the site and transfer it to a new hosting company without being able to access the files?

#cloning #website

silveraden 14 years ago

Use Google cache to see the content and then copy them. There is no way you can take out the content without accessing the site unless you memorized everything.
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acesites 14 years ago

Wow, that's quite a pickle.

He doesn't have any FTP log-ins written down anywhere? That's very strange that a host would not respond.

I guess it depends on what kind of site it is. If it's Wordpress, you could get the same theme and just re-build from scratch. There's no easy way to clone it I think, it will have to be re-built from scratch.
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- pablo4103 14 years ago
  
  he had not accessed that site in over two years. tried his user name and password but kept telling me password invalid.
  
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jfambrini 14 years ago

Use archive.org to retrieve an archive of your site or use Google cache.
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- Dan Curtis 14 years ago
  
  Unless I have completely misunderstood the situation...
  
  1. If you have access to the domain you can get hosting at any other company and use that domain. If you do not have access to the domain you will need to buy a new domain.
  
  2. Once you have hosting you should be able to use httrack to get all your files and upload them to your site with the new hosting company.
  
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  pablo4103 14 years ago
  
  Called go daddy and they told me that they host the domain but if I could not access the files through the c-panel of the other company i would have to start from scratch.
  
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Don Schenk 14 years ago

Is it your domain and your website, but you let someone else set up the domain and website for you? Then the person setting it up registered the name in his name?

This is one I hear all the time in the local business marketing workshops I do at my office.

If that is what happend to you, then you don't own your domain name. The person who set it up for you owns it.

If that person (or company) built your website, they own the design too. They may have proprietary code in the site, which they own. In that case you can't just copy the site and host it elswhere. It becomes a copyright issue.

In most browsers you just hit "file - save," and select "save as website complete," and you will download the entire website. However, the designer may own the copyright.

You may need to start over. Get the domain name yourself, in your name. Get a hosting account in your name, and either learn how to build a site, or hire a designer. There are folks in the warriors for hire part of the warrior forum who can do that for you.

Go look at the whois database - I usually use the one listed at the bottom of network solutions dot com's website. Type in the domain name, and see in whose name that designer registered it.

Sorry to be bearer of bad news. Don't shoot me, I'm just the messanger.

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- pablo4103 14 years ago
  
  hey don, did what you told me and the domain name is his. you might be right on the other things. he did have someone build the site for him. will have to ask him. when you say "
  In most browsers you just hit "file - save," and select "save as website complete," and you will download the entire website.
  Is this when I right click to view source?
  Then I copy that?
  
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  Don Schenk 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by pablo4103
  
  Is this when I right click to view source?
  Then I copy that?
  
  No. While viewing the webpage you choose file, then...
  
  In IE it's "file-save as"
  
  In Firefox it's "file - save page"
  
  In Chrome- hit the wrench tool icon in the upper right.
  
  If the site is a standard HTML site, saving the page as "wesite complete" will save an HTML file and a folder. The folder contains all the images.
  
  You will have to do this for each page of the site. What a PITA.
  
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Randall Magwood 14 years ago

Did yall backup your web files?
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