[drupal-support] archving Drupal sites with wget

[Charlie Lowe]

At Purdue University, we are going to replace our inactive Drupal sites 
with static HTML mirrors of all public content (to avoid 
administrating/upgrading them in the future). I've successfully done 
this with Httrack, but I'm planning on writing up a tutorial for doing 
this and would like to provide instructions for wget (I'll submit some 
instructions as a handbook page on drupal.org)

The problem I've encountered with wget is that it is not converting the 
relative style sheet urls' properly. So with Drupal pages such as 
http://example.com/node/1, wget creates a subfolder node/, but the style 
sheet remains relative to the base url (note that Htrack does modify the 
relative url correctly).

To get the style sheets to work properly on all new pages with wget, I 
have succeeded in modifying the theme template to hardcode in the 
absolute URL for the style sheets (both misc/drupal.css and the theme 
css). However, I'm wondering whether or not wget can do this correctly 
with the right config settings from the original theme template with the 
relative URL's?

Any suggestions? As I mentioned, using the Htrack windows client works 
well enough for me, but I wouldn't mind writing up about wget in the 
tutorial since it's generally a 'nix server default. Anyone successfully 
done this already?

Charlie Lowe