How to Recover Lost Webpages without Backups & Upload Web sites without Software
If anyone has lost all or part of their current Website without having recent backups, or lost access to their Web host’s filemanager here are several recoverable tactics.
USE the CACHE on Google, Yahoo and MSN and use the ‘SITE’: Command for archived HTML. Find old images by using the Internet Archive and searching for your URLs.
Here is and interesting add on for FireFox that Searches ALL the major caches for missing sites:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
There is another option that surprisingly, many people have not thought of - GET THE TEMPORARY FILES from any computer that has recently viewed the site that you can get access to.
This means you will find also: Flash, CSS, JS files as well as images.
This add on for FireFox actually allows you to search and organize the cache files without the troublesome manual commands
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489
for IE users, just go to TOOLS –> INTERNET OPTIONS –>
then locate the appropriate submenu and copy and paste those files into the desktop or another directory for safe keeping. Once at the temporary directory, it might be helpful to GROUP BY Name or Internet Address If no FTP program is available, and you are really desperate… you can type ftp://domainname.com (replace with your Domain name) in the Internet Explorer address bar, and when the popup appear, put in the username and password to immediatly access your Web site ’s Webpage files to begin pasting or dragging in the ‘recovered files’ or you can use ftp://username:password@domainname.com (wipe away your traces if others use that PC) You can also use this strategy to get YouTube videos or MP3 files that you have already accessed, without using any of the youtube downloaders. If you need to do a HTML modifications and do not have any WYSIWYG editors around, just open View Source for the webpage and put in the ‘BASE HREF= ‘ tag in the head with the URL of the domain name -
then save the page locally to the desktop as an .html file. This allows for modifying and instantly previewing the design without having to make constant round trips to the server to inspect.
then locate the appropriate submenu and copy and paste those files into the desktop or another directory for safe keeping. Once at the temporary directory, it might be helpful to GROUP BY Name or Internet Address If no FTP program is available, and you are really desperate… you can type ftp://domainname.com (replace with your Domain name) in the Internet Explorer address bar, and when the popup appear, put in the username and password to immediatly access your Web site ’s Webpage files to begin pasting or dragging in the ‘recovered files’ or you can use ftp://username:password@domainname.com (wipe away your traces if others use that PC) You can also use this strategy to get YouTube videos or MP3 files that you have already accessed, without using any of the youtube downloaders. If you need to do a HTML modifications and do not have any WYSIWYG editors around, just open View Source for the webpage and put in the ‘BASE HREF= ‘ tag in the head with the URL of the domain name -
then save the page locally to the desktop as an .html file. This allows for modifying and instantly previewing the design without having to make constant round trips to the server to inspect.
