Standalone Expression Engine site

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Question

I have a client that has a website built in the Expression Engine (this also applies for a WordPress site I have the same requests for).

Basically the client wants an offline version that is distributable say on a cd or usb drive. This also needs to be dummy proof that it's basically a double click and voila site is open and offline and functional.

Please let me know of any applications or thoughts you may have on ways to achieve this. The only thing I have come across is using XAMPP but this then has to be installed on every computer before hand and files to be transferred to the htdocs folder before use - as this is not dummy proof and a bit risky I can't see this as the solution.

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Solution

I'd do it like:

  • export everything as pure HTML, CSS, JavaScript and media assets.

  • create the AutoPlay just like any CD-ROM to open the index.html file.

  • the AutoPlay should have Windows/OSX versions.

  • create some JS functions to check for network connection and pull updated content from the live site.

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