• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• DESCRIPTION
• BUGS
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHORS

NAME

w3mfix - fixup program for w3mir

SYNOPSIS

w3mfix [options] [configuration-file]

DESCRIPTION

w3mfix is the companion program to w3mir. It can be used for several URL editing operations usefull in different situations.

When starting w3mfix will read it's configuration file. It's name is either .w3mirc (w3mir.ini on win32) or specified on the commandline.

w3mfix is controlled by the 'Fixup' directive of the configuration file (described in the w3mir documentation). w3mfix is also affected by 'Index-name' and the one special commandline option it knows, as well as the directives/options controlling verbosity and debugging information.

DESCRIPTION

w3mfix can rewrite URLs in these ways:

• Rewrite URLs that resutled in redirects to point to the place redirected to. This is needed in all cases and will always be fixed by w3mfix.
• Change URLs ending in .../ into .../index.html (or .../Welcome.html). This is, probably, not needed when the mirror is meant do be used with a web-server. It is usefull for browsing directly from disk or CDROM, but in this case it's, most often, required. To disable this specify the noindex option with the 'Fixup' directive.

  The default is to transform URLs ending in .../ into .../index.html.

  To controll the name of the index file use the Index-name directive as documented in w3mir

• Change URL links to documents outside the mirror to point to some local document. Could be usefull if the mirror is destined for a CDROM to be used on a unconnected machine.

  THIS IS NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

• Change URL links to documents that w3mir was unable/forbidden to retrive to point to some local document. Pointing these to a nice informative document is probably better than random error messages from the browser.

  THIS IS NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

• And, least, but far from last, w3mfix can be used to prepare an established mirror for enlargement.

  This feature is used thus: Add the new site or subsite to be mirrored on the configuration file (by adding Also: and Also-quene: directives). Then run w3mfix with the -editref option. When the -editref option is specified w3mfix will not perform any other editing tasks.

  E.g.; To add http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/ to your mirror add something like

            Also: http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/ yahoo
  

  to the configuration file, then run w3mfix:

            w3mfix -editref www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life
  

  This will cause all references to www.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life (and under) to be edited so they point to within the mirror. After w3mfix has finished you can run w3mir in the normal manner.

BUGS

Naah.

SEE ALSO

w3mir

AUTHORS

w3mirs authors can be reached at w3mir-core@usit.uio.no. w3mirs home page is at http://www.math.uio.no/~janl/w3mir/