[support] Creating a static archive of drupal site ("base" directive gets in the way)

[Cheryl Chase]

I would like to create a static html archive of my drupal site (on a  
regular basis, for corporate compliance reasons related to  
documenting previous states of the publicly published information).

I have referred to the drupal manual page at http://drupal.org/node/ 
27882. But I have two problems (because I am simply archiving a  
snapshot of the site, not retiring it, so I don't want to interfere  
with the normal, drupal-based, dynamic operation).

1. When I use any of the download tools (wget, sitesucker, I've not  
yet tried httrack) to download the site, the function  
drupal_get_html_head in file includes/common.inc outputs a directive  
". This causes the downloaded pages to contain links which try to  
open the original site on the Internet, rather than the local file copy.

2. I would like to be logged in as a special user, named "archive",  
which is configured specially for archive purposes. For instance, it  
has no permission to search; it displays a custom block that tells  
that this is an archived version of the website, and states the date  
on which it was archived, etc. This works for me when I manually  
login as user "archive". How to get a downloading tool to login as a  
drupal user (they are good at http authentication, but have no  
understanding of drupal authentication).

Thanks,

Cheryl


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