Retrieving NTL Hosted WebPage

[lemarsh]

I have a site which is NTL hosted, and visable. However, due to (NTL theory) a Database Corruption, I cannot access the site (through FTP), or update it.

They have given me a new site address, but cannot transfer the files accross. I would need to download the files individually to my PC (from the address http://homepage.ntlworld.com/********/) , and then upload.

The problem I have is that Frontpage creates loads of small fiels, and puts them in weird directory structures. What I need is to download all the files, whilst maintaining the directory structure.

It would take hours doing it individually from the site, and will be prone to errors. Before anyone suggests the original files, my PC crashed, and was rebuilt, and I was depending on NTL for the back-ups.

Any suggestions - as you cannot (as far as I can see) copy/selete all, and then paste.

Thanks

Lee

[edit - just noticed this is my 100th post - happy birthday to me]

[lemarsh]

Don't suppose anyone had any ideas did they?

Just thought I'd try to bring it back into play in case someone who knew may spot it - otherwise its back to the drawing board.

thanks

[paulyoung666]

sorry mate , i dont get it , you say you cannot access the site but then say you could download them to your pc , sorry for being thick here

[Enterian]

Think http://www.aeria.com/products/index.htm might be what you need

Actually come to think of it can't Frontpage download an entire site?

[Enterian]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

sorry mate , i dont get it , you say you cannot access the site but then say you could download them to your pc , sorry for being thick here

I think he means that he can access (and download) his site via http, however not via ftp.

[lemarsh]

The problem I have is that the site is visable through the Internet (www.harehill.co.uk - which points to NTL webspace).

This page needs to be updated - but I cannot FTP onto the site to either upload or download, so need to point to a new NTL Webspace (which they have already given me).

NTL cannot transfer the pages in the old area to the new area (sorry for not being technical), so I need to upload to the new area myself.

But...... I need to get the pages off of the old area first (PC Rebuild meant I do not have the originals). This is where the problem arises - I cannot FTP onto the site to get my software to download the pages (and all the files, images and all the stuff FrontPage uses in the background).

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by lemarsh

I cannot FTP onto the site to either upload or download

Why? What goes wrong, exactly? What remedies have you tried? Is your PC behind a broadband router?

If it is a password problem, just ask NTL to reset the password to something new.

Anyway, you can presumably download the entire site by HTTP: programs exist to follow all links in a site and download it all.

[Richard M]

You could use WGET to spider the entire public site using HTTP.
Windows version: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Note that only files that are linked to will be downloaded, it acts pretty much the same as a search engine spider.

[willie]

another proggie you can use is webreaper which wil grab all pages on the site and transfer them to your pc keeping the file structure intact

[Tricky]

Can you not just "Make available offline" in IE?
I've leeched sites before with this

[lemarsh]

Thanks for all the comments - will probably look at this tomorrow.

As usual - the response and help shows what a great site this is.

Rep points on the way!!

[abailey152]

Why do you want Frontpage extensions? I thought NTL webspace doesn't handle them?

Anyway, download the normal html, javascripts and images etc. from your site, and save them to a local folder, using the same structure you have now. Ignore the Frontpage folders and files. Then open Frontpage, and select File -> Open Web and navigate to this new folder. Frontpage will then recreate its normal structure. All you need to do then is upload the lot.