MIRRORING WEB SITE USING HTTrack WEB SITE COPIER

By: Vishal Kumar (CEH | CHFI | CISE | MCP)

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Lab - 5

Overview of HTTrack and Web Site Mirroring

• HTTrack Web Site Copier is an offline bowser utility that downloads a Web Site to a local directory.

• Web Site Mirroring creates a replica of an existing site. It allows you to download a website to a local directory, analyze all directories HTML, Images, Flash, Videos, and other files from the server on your computer.

Lab Scenario

• It can be difficult to perform footprinting on a live website. In that case, you may need to mirror the target website. This mirroring of the website helps you to footprint the website thoroughly on your local system. As a professional Ethical Hacker or Pen Tester, you should be able to mirror the website of the target organization. This lab will demonstrate how to mirror a target website.

Installation and Configuration of HTTrack

• You can download the HTTrack from its official website that is: https://www.httrack.com/. • To install the HTTrack Web Site Copier, just double click on

the executable file and follow the instructions.

• After the successfully installation the HTTrack, double-click on the HTTrack icon on the Desktop to open the HTTrack Web Site Copier. The home screen of the HTTrack is will be open as shown in the below screenshot.

• Enter the name of project in the Project Name field. select the base path to store the copied files. Click Next As shown in the below screenshot.

• Set target website url in the Web Addresses: (URL) field and click on Next.

• Click on Scan Rules and check all three format options and click OK, and then click on Next.

• Check the Disconnect when finished check box and click on Finish, The site mirroring has started and progress is displays as in the following screenshot:

Reviewing the result• HTTrack takes some time to compete cloning the target

website.• After the completion of the mirroring process, click on the

Browse Mirrored Website button to brows the result.• The mirrored website for the target domain launches. The

URL displayed in the address bar indicates that the website's image is stored on the local machine.

• Note: - If the web page is not open, navigate the directory where you mirror the website and open index.html with any browser.

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