Just Announced: WebRecorder Introduces GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives

Cool!

From the Webrecorder Website:

We’re excited to announce the launch of GovArchive.us, a dedicated site for exploring our US Government Web Archive on Browsertrix. The project also introduces a brand new approach for viewing web archives: the ability to host a full-site “mirror” from any web archive, keeping original links intact while hosting them on a new domain.

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Here’s a selection of a few ‘mirror’ sites that we have available from govarchive.us. Each mirror is a static site that loads an archived version from our collection, hosted on a dedicated domain:

• usaid.govarchive.us as a mirror of usaid.gov
• cdc.govarchive.us as a mirror of cdc.gov
• fema.govarchive.us as a mirror of fema.gov
• epa.govarchive.us as a mirror of epa.gov
• climate.govarchive.us as a mirror of climate.gov.

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Mirroring Sites with Web Archives — Getting Started

This approach can be used by anyone to mirror a dynamic website hosted as a static site powered by web archives!

If you run a particular domain, you can set up a web archive as a static site, and point the domain to the static version of the site instead!

Or, you can host a mirror elsewhere, as we have done. This can be used to migrate off costly or obsolete infrastructure, while still preserving a site at the highest fidelity!

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