I touched upon PHP in a few previous posts, most heavily in Moving to a MySQL Database as a way to hack database information into a WordPress page. Dynamically writing HTML is exactly what PHP does so I will be using extensively in this post. Specifying Database User Information The first thing that needs to …
As you can see in the previous post, scraping from the Blogger API only yields the content of the post itself and some related metadata like date and author. In order to make the posts look like they came from the original website the formatting and CSS need to be copied over. You might be …
All of the websites I had downloaded up to this point were using the WinHTTrack utility. I love that program because it is super easy; you simply paste the domain of the website you want to download and click start. Depending on how large the site is you should have a fully cloned website within …
I really should be studying for my finals tomorrow but I got distracted and clicked through a few of the more recently updated websites listed on the Sites page. I noticed that the Buccaneers, Babey! content column hadn’t been updated recently even though it is one of the most active blogs indexed by the NIC. …
I knew as I was creating the Sites page last August that I would forget and/or become too lazy to update the Last Active section. Only 23 sites have been updated within the past year at the time of posting, so, assuming I only checked these ones, it wouldn’t be a terribly difficult task. But, …
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When I first thought about doing this project I envisioned each page having a small panel on the side giving information on the website. After I actually started archiving sites and realized just how huge the mountain of work ahead of me was, the overlays took a back seat. It seemed like a good idea …
Much of the groundwork has been done already for this project. This post is going to focus on making things more sustainable and organized for the long term. Before this post I had been storing information for each site in the spreadsheet on my computer mentioned in the archival process series of posts. From there …
As I mentioned at the end of the Archival Process Part 4 post, most everything worked except for hyperlinks between domains while using a gateway (such as hns.to). To give an idea of how important it is to fix this issue, every single link on the Sites page was broken. If everyone natively resolved Handshake …
This post is sort of a Part 2 to the last one. After the last post I was able to successfully access the Pirate101 Loot website at loot.p101, but there was a little bit of an issue. In order to access the content of the website, I had to navigate to loot.p101/pirate101loot.webs.com. This technically works, …
Until now, all of the proxies I have created centered on independent websites and Blogger sites. These are fairly straight forward to proxy using Apache’s mod_proxy_html package and there are enough (but I won’t say plenty of-) tutorials online to throw something together that works most of the time. With all of the low-hanging fruit …