How to create a local copy of my vBulletin forum

[The Lord of Dip]

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.

[Chris8]

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?

[Adrian Schneider]

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.

[Disasterpiece]

maybe httrack is something for you

[The Lord of Dip]

Originally Posted by Chris8

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?

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.

Originally Posted by Adrian Schneider

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.

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

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

maybe httrack is something for you

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.