WordPress (or any CMS) to html files

	Posted
Parent Directory	2007-06-18 20:37

Can you host a website made in WordPress on IIS? Or one made in DotNetNuke on Apache? Yes! Now I am NOT about the describe how you can run those application where they weren’t meant to run. I’ll just show you how you can have a CMS spit out plain html files – no need for database or server-side scripting.

Yes, I’m probably crazy – I understand that situations where this would be applicable are only a few. That’s because my “solution” will work well (without additional labor) only for “static” websites – no forms (including contact/comment forms). I’ll list a few applicable situations at the bottom of this post.

Let’s say you created the website and set it up under http://localhost/mywebsite. (If it is WordPress, you may need to change the relative references in your theme’s css to absolute)
In your Linux terminal or Cygwin on your Windows machine, run the following wget command:
```
wget --html-extension --recursive --page-requisites --progress=bar --mirror http://localhost/mywebsite
```
This will generate an html file for every page of your website.
Once you have all the files, you will want to mass find-and-replace all instances of localhost/mywebsite to e.g. www.andrejciho.com. The script below is a powerful one. It finds and replace stuff inside of all files under a folder, no matter how deep inside the directory structure:
```
find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/localhost\\/mywebsite/www.andrejciho.com/g' {} \\;
```

Possible applicable situations:

University IT department gives a student government FrontPage access to a folder on their server, but no database access. The student government folks are good with WordPress.
Your client demands that you migrate the website you made for them in WordPress to their IIS server.
You want your server to exert as little energy as possible when serving your website.

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