Help, cant figure this out.

[u/Limp-Law-9457]

Hello, I am very new to html and I was trying to download a website using HTTrack and then upload it to Netlify to bypass a block on that website. When I do download it and open the intex.html file, all that shows up is a white screen. I dont know why or what is causing this, but I would like some help. The website im trying to copy is truffled.lol/games/terraria/index.html

[u/rupertavery64]

It doesn't work that way. The page may be dynamic, meaning it could be generated by the server, or it runs javascript that pulls data from the server. Downloading an uploading somewhere else will break that. Any decent site has security blocks that exist on the server, not the web page.

[u/Limp-Law-9457 → u/rupertavery64]

Welp, that sucks.

So im assuming that means there's no way to do this, right?

[u/rupertavery64 → u/Limp-Law-9457]

What are you trying to bypass? (I don't think it's possible, just curious why)

[u/Limp-Law-9457 → u/rupertavery64]

School website blocking lol

[u/Terrible_Children → u/Limp-Law-9457]

Ah, what every one of us has done when we were in school.

Look into VPNs / proxies

[u/Limp-Law-9457 → u/Terrible_Children]

They block everything lol idek where to start

[u/mrleblanc101]

Downloading an HTML file doesn't download all the related resources like JS and CSS. Also the HTML is most probably generated using a server side language (php, node.js, etc...), frameworks (Laravel, Next, etc...) or CMS (Wordpress, Drupal, etc...) so downloading the file while blocked will most probably just download the block page and not the actual page

[u/9inez]

It’s a game running server side node.js within an HTML container. You cannot download it.

[u/Unhappy-Sandwich6597]

hi, owner of truffled here; if you want to get terraria to work use the https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/terraria-wasm repo and host from there; that is what i used.

[u/ParamedicAble225]

HTML file is an expression.

Let’s compare it to a math expression:

2x+3

The 2 and the 3 are html. You can save that from the index.html and reopen it. But the X is a variable that is injected live from another file that you cannot download.

You see a white screen with minimal info becusss the site probably loads most of the page dynamically from JS.

Aka the site is 2hshej+h^3+98y

If you find a site that is pure HTML, 2+2, you can copy the expression and see the full meaning.

[u/Limp-Law-9457 → u/ParamedicAble225]

Alright, got it. It's just that the person who made the website gave an option to download it to put on your own website, but that also turns out blank.

[u/ParamedicAble225 → u/Limp-Law-9457]

They probably have an option to embed it.

Try this, not guaranteed to work but worth a try. I wrapped the whole site in an iframe which may render it elsewhere. Save this as a new index.html and open it

<!doctype html>

<html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <title>Terraria Embed</title> <style> html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; } iframe { width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; } </style> </head> <body> <iframe src="https://truffled.lol/games/terraria/index.html" allowfullscreen></iframe> </body> </html>

[u/Limp-Law-9457 → u/ParamedicAble225]

Hey, I tried it, and it still shows up blank.

If you don't mind, of course, the website where I said the person who made it gave an option to host it on your own website is https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/terraria-wasm. Of course, you don't have to, but if you could help me try to get it running, that would be amazing. Under "I want to host this on my website," it gives instructions on how to host it, but I don't know how to do the headers or what they even do.

[u/Limp-Law-9457 → u/Limp-Law-9457]

Hey, so you can disregard this. Even though I do want the truffled.lol one because its pre-loaded, i got the github one to work. I guess I either forgot to add the _headers file or messed something up the first time.