Archiving your League Site
Archiving your League Site
If you are shifting your League's online presense from one platform to another, you may want to archive your site in some way that enables to you access the old material or pages in the future.
Depending on where you are coming from and where you are going, your methods will be different. This document will give you information for a MyLO site and will give you general ideas you might be able to use for sites on other platforms.
Archiving a MyLO site
League sites housed on MyLO are not technically individual sites. They are groups within the MyLO system. This is how content sharing, the Media Library, and cross-League tagging works. Access to these group-specific pages, and Webmaster controls, are made available through a complex set of permissions connected to roles and membership attached to each individual account.
When a League site is created, it is created in "Private" mode. This means that the League site is inactive on the MyLO system, and only that League's Webmasters will be able to see it.
Once you set the League site to "Public," then anyone will be able to visit the League's site on MyLO.
If you want to archive a MyLO site, simply change its mode back to Private. This will then shut the League site down to anyone who isn't a Webmaster, but will still allow Webmasters to view it for archival purposes.
Please contact the mylo [at] lwvc.org (subject: Redirect%20Needed%20for%20MyLO%20site) (MyLO team) for assistance with redirecting your MyLO URL to your new site.
Download a Copy of a Public Site (MyLO or Elsewhere)
- Download a copy of the site to your local computer (see below for how to do this)
- Contact customer support and request their assistance with turning off your site - see this document if that is MyLO
- Point your URL to wherever you want it to go next - see this document if that is MyLO
To download a copy of your site, you will need to use a crawler that will grab your site and download it. Our favorite crawlers:
- Mac: Site Sucker
- Windows:
- CyoTek WebCopy (step-by-step instructions)
- HTTrack Website Copier
MyLO FAQ Category:
- Best practices, Domain management, General