php (such as viewtopic.php* and viewforum.php*) files in there.

Make a new subfolder called “archive” and move all the top-level.

Enter the folder where you downloaded all the pages (we’ll call this the download folder).

You’ll need to download the archived forum scripts from IBBoard ( ) and do the following. You’ll now have a complete copy of the forum, but you can’t use it in its current form. Step 3: Moving phpBB archived files into place You may want to make a backup copy in case any of the next steps go wrong. This command ensures that only useful pages are downloaded, and only downloads pages from the forum section of the site – if there are other sections they won’t be downloaded, saving time and bandwidth. Note: Replace with the web address of the actual forum you want to archive. It going slowly is no bad thing because it stops the web server from being overwhelmed. Please be aware this it might take a very long time to run this command – be ready to leave it going overnight (or in my case, several days).

I used the command from the IBBoard tutorial for this: wget -m -p -np -R '*sid=*,ucp.php*,memberlist.php*,*mode=viewprofile*,*view=print*,viewonline.php*,search.php*,posting.php*'

These steps assume you’re running Linux, but the scripts provided may also work on macOS or on Windows under Cygwin ( ). If not, install it using your package manager. Wget is usually available out of the box on Linux. It may work with other themes as well, but I cannot verify/guarantee this. NOTE: This tutorial assumes you’re using the default “prosilver” theme. I did this because the whole site keeps going up and down and I’m not sure how long the forum will remain available. Recently, I took it upon myself to archive the MultiWii forums as part of the Drone Pi project I’m currently working on (more details and instructions coming soon!).

NOTE: This post is based on but adds some extra steps which I found necessary to make it work best.

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