Can this be done? My friend has an online portfolio website and the developer has gone totally awol! He needs to show his website offline to clients next week in a place where there is no internet connectivity. He has asked for my help, but I am a total novice to web design and only know very basic stuff. I was wondering if I could download the whole site folders locally and somehow view these in a browser. I have full FTP access to the host. The site has no database, it's just a portfolio with photos and some flash menus. I do know that there are several hard coded URL's in the flash menus and I have no access to the source files. After looking around a little, I see that there may be a way around this by modifying the localhost setting? I really don't know what to do, so any basic advice in a step by step basis for a beginner would be very much appreciated!

If they're just HTML/CSS files then you should be able to download everything, folders included, in the root directory and open the index.html file in a web browser. Links to other pages and images that are broken can be altered by opening the HTML files in a text editor and changing them.

 

The fact that you mentioned localhost makes me think that the site is using PHP? If so then you'd need to run a local server emulator such as XAMPP and run it via accessing http://localhost in your browser.

 

Another option is just create a PDF version of the portfolio. This is good practice for emailing or allowing someone to download it anyway.

I doubt its posible to change your localhost to do what you want.

If the urls in the flash files are http requests with absolute paths the browser will look for the specific DNS on the web.

But there might be browser plugins that will let you enter a list of urls that you want to be replaced with others which could easily be on your local machine.

I googled the issue and found this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ ( I didn't try it though but i think it will do the job)