Consider the useful Album script which recursively scans a directory and builds thumbnails and HTML pages. You run it once, move the contents to your web server and when you need to update - repeat. (example)

Conversely, i use a crawler for the DBIx::XHTML_Table site. I run mod_perl locally on my machine and when i make updates, i run a mirror on unlocalhost.com that contacts my local machine and downloads the HTML files.

If you install a server on your client's PC, you shouldn't have to worry about changing IP numbers as long as all of the links are relative and not absolute - for example, don't use links in your HTML pages such as "http://somedomain.com/index.html" - use "/index.html" instead.

jeffa

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