How to create a local copy of my vBulletin forum
 

Hi there!

I need to "download" my vBulletin forum to have it on my computer. I just would like to have it as a book, only for reading purposes. I don't need to be able to post, to edit or anything involves 'dynamic' features.

I also need to avoid the "PHP+MySQL+Apache" solution, as I can't have them running on my pc.

Any suggestion?

Thank you so much for your help.

You mean you need a copy of your forum threads/posts? I see two solution one is to use a bot to scrape the archive (http://www.yourforum.com/archive/index.php/) the second one would be writing some simple script to dump posts fields in a threaded way directly for the database. You could also read the whole post table directly from the local database backup if you're convinient with it. Does anyone see a better way?

All you need to do is download the files + database backup, and run them on a local webserver. Why can't you install them on your PC?

For a cheap backup, you could use wget to only download the archives.

maybe httrack is something for you

Yes I mean being able to read the whole forum, so threads and posts. Thank you for your ideas but I'm not really familiar with coding these kind of scripts.

I can't make this PC a webserver for different reasons. I need to find a different solution.

I already knew that, thank you I didn't think about that. Unfortunately it's not working very well, but if there are no further suggestions I'll find a way.