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hey moshu: i don’t mean to sound like i’m disagreeable with everything that’s been mentioned! i appreciate ALL of these suggestions and i’m going to do my research.

i’m currently on my 2nd download of HTTrack as suggested by one of the guys over there. I’ll see if I can get that solution to work but for some reason, it’s giving me the same problems as I’ve always had when trying these offline browsers!

Here’s the site I need to backup in case anyone else wants to take a shot and tell me if they’re successful. https://greenvalleymoments.com

Once again, thank you for all your suggestions and I’ll post my solution when I find it!

LenK: I don’t mean to shoot down all the ideas!! I just want this to be as foolproof and dummy proof as possible!

Here’s why the XAMPP idea can’t happen: I live in one state and she lives in another! Also, I don’t her to have to depend on a computer to access it when she might upgrade to a better computer in the future. I think the simplest, easiest way for someone like that to access the site is to burn it to a DVD. Pop in the DVD and the website comes up!

I’d love for this offline browser idea to work but I don’t know what I’m doing differently than whooami. It sounds like it’d be a great solution but I continually have problems with it!

whooami: hahahaha… your humor is awesome.

you must be doing something differently than i am or i just don’t know what i’m doing because winHTTtrack is one of the first ones i tried with unsuccessful results!

The program will download my index page and then it says it is done. i’m so confused why it’s only downloading the one page and not all the subsequent pages.

whoami: the problem with offline browsers is that they try to copy the actual html or php files. i’ve tried several of them and all they do is copy the index.html file which queries the database. because all the rest of the html pages don’t actually exist (since they are permalinks), it doesn’t find any other files to download. I’ve had this problem with several of these programs so far.

She’s definitely not computer literate enough for the XAMPP suggestion. I wasn’t sure if there was a way to take the website and have it run with a portable installation of MySQL and PHP on a DVD so that you don’t have to rely on anything else.

jeremyclark13: I’ve browsed all the offline content downloaders and every one I’ve tried is lacking. When you download the content, there always seems to be CSS or HTML links pointing to the original website. I don’t know of a 100% foolproof way to change all the links to relative and reroute anything pointing to the domain.

Any other suggestions? Does anyone have any experience with this?

The temporary solution that I have for making this plug-in to work is use an older version. The version I’m using says “$Rev: 21241 $” in Version column in my Plugins section on WordPress.

They are both on the same database server, yes. I tried using two different MySQL and two same MySQL databases and neither worked with the 2.1.2 install. This is all on a dedicated server.

Previously, I installed WP 2.1 successfully. I needed another blog, so I wanted to install a new WP blog in another directory. I tried using 2.1.2 and it wouldn’t install. So, I deleted the 2.1.2 directory and tried with 2.1, which was again successful. So now I have 2 blogs both of which are 2.1. I could not install 2.1.2 from scratch and do not know why that is the case. It makes no sense to me.

This is awfully strange. I reverted back to 2.1 and installed it successfully. Does 2.1.2 have a bug in it for some reason? I’m confused!

This is the second installation of WordPress that shall exist on the site. The first version is 2.1, which has not been upgraded.

A new MySQL database has been made for this new installation, and I am trying to install from scratch.

thanks moshu. i found the answer which wasn’t clear in the original instructions. I think I’ll use this solution assuming they like it. Thanks for your observations.

The error I’m getting is this one:

No connection to the mailserver. Please try again later.

I have no idea where to change this value or how to make it work.

moshu, i must be a retard because i didn’t see that. but now that i tried to implement this new one, it is just giving me an error.

same page, new form

I never was provided a solution to my problem unfortunately. Is there anyone else out there that can help a PHP noobie to fix this problem?

I would love to try out that plugin, but I have no idea how to extend it so that all those extra fields exist since I’m unfamiliar with PHP. Is there an easy way to do this?