Can I export a s9y site to static html ?

ben_99_9 · Post by **ben_99_9** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:50 pm

Hello,

I am experimenting serendipity and I am quite impressed by its ease of use and power.
Here is my problem : I have a very restricted production web server which does not allow anything beside HTML pages (no database, no php).
I would like to use a local internal LAMP installation to setup s9y and write my articles. Then I need a way to export the whole content to my production server as a set of interlinked html pages looking exactly the same as on my internal LAMP but for the dynamic parts (add comments, trackbacks, administration).

Has anyone tried something like this ?

Cheers
Benjamin

chickens · Post by **chickens** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:37 pm

I suggest finding a web host that actually has updated the policy in the last 10 years. If a host does not support any dynamic content then it is not worth the hassle to try and use them.

There might be a way to save the static HTML files, but its going to be more work than to find a good host.

ben_99_9 · Post by **ben_99_9** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:14 pm

Sadly, changing the host is not option, this a private corporate server with a very strict policy (and a very old fashioned one

). This might change in the future by I am looking for a temporary solution for the time being.

Aren't there any caching extensions which could be easily adapted ?

Thank you for your time.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:21 am

Hi!

Doing a static page export is very complex. I doubt someone has done it with Serendipity, it is simply not meant for this. You would loose ALL flexibility on the frontend, no sidebar plugin would output changing content (like RSS feeds) and people could not create comments on your page.

So: Forget about using Serendipity on this server. There is NO WAY to run a blog software on a server only with HTML, because HTML is static, and blogs are dynamic. Only if you just use a blog without comments, trackbacks, dynamic output - but that's not a blog, is it?

Regards,
Garvin

ben_99_9 · Post by **ben_99_9** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:52 pm

Thanks a lot for your help. I was aware I would have lost all interactivity, but wrongly thought this would not be so difficult to export.

Thanks again for your help, I will continue with s9y anyway with more usual servers.
Cheers