I’ve exported this site from Drupal using wget to create a static html version like

wget  --mirror -p  -e robots=off --base=./ -k -P ./ http://localhost/

Then rsync to the server and use mod rewrite to retain the paged links like frontpage?page=4

I’ve been working on a project for a while on my main dev machine, but needed to run it on my laptop too.

Usually copying a site across is quick but this time I re-installed the OS too, everything went OK except for some reason I couldn’t log in to my drupal site.

Eventually I noticed that while the site appeared to be working, every page was being served with a 404 header.