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Build your own FOTW copy or mirror

Last modified: 2001-11-23 by rob raeside
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Warning: Before building a local copy or a mirror of FOTW website, read carefully our copyright rules
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Building your own local copy of FOTW website

To build your own copy of the FOTW website:

  1. Click here to enter the directory /mirrors/monthlys/ on the download site
  2. Download all the files allimag1.zip, allimag2.zip etc. and unzip them into the directory /fotw/images (or c:\fotw\images) on your local hard disk.
  3. Download all the files allflag1.zip, allflag2.zip etc. and unzip them into the directory /fotw/flags (or c:\fotw\flags) on your local hard disk.
  4. Download all the files allmisc1.zip, allmisc2.zip etc. and unzip them into the directory /fotw/misc (or c:\fotw\misc) on your local hard disk.
Note that these zipped files are more than 1.44 MB in size. If you want to transport them by diskette to a non-networked pc (e.g. to your home pc), you will have to split the files yourself.

To look at your local copy of FOTW, open the file /flags/index.html (or c:\fotw\flags\index.html)

Keeping your copy up to date

FOTW contents change almost every day. To monthly update your copy you should download the monthly updating files:

  1. Click here to enter the directory /mirrors/monthlys/ on the download site
  2. Check the file read_me.txt for the extact period of time covered by the monthly update, the name of latest delete file, and other information.
  3. Download the delete file named in read_me.txt, probably named 'del-xxnm.txt', where 'mn' stands for the month-number of the month you try to update over (01= Jan, 02=Feb ...), and delete the obsolete files named in it.
  4. Download the file mn-image.zip (or the files mn-imag1.zip, mn-imag2.zip etc. if they exist) and unzip into the directory /fotw/images (or c:\fotw\images) on your local hard disk.
  5. Download the file mn-flags.zip (or the files mn-flag1.zip, mn-flag2.zip etc. if they exist) and unzip into the directory /fotw/flags (or c:\fotw\flags) on your local hard disk.
  6. Download the file mn-misc.zip (or the files mn-misc1.zip, mn-misc2.zip etc. if they exist) and unzip into the directory /fotw/misc (or c:\fotw\misc) on your local hard disk.
Note that these update files are no