Static HTML stack
We'd quite like the ability to specify a HTML-only stack with PHP disabled and no database. While this might seem an odd request, we sometimes have the need for temporary holding sites, additional sub-sites, etc. It's potentially also of use with headless CMS sites. Having related sites on the same server / within the same interface is useful.
While I realise we can use the PHP install for this, I'd prefer something that has code execution properly disabled from the start.
Neil C Smith
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Lucy Marie commented
That makes sense, sometimes you just need a lightweight solution without PHP or a database. For static sites like this, using a simple HTML stack is perfect. If you’re also testing any payment features or forms, tools like https://creditcardgenerator.io can help you simulate payment data safely without needing a full backend setup.
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Ryan Gedwill commented
2025
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Helder Luis
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2024!
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Johnny Vernin commented
2023...
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Simone Ferrara commented
A static site generator (Hugo, 11ty, Astro, etc.) would be great. Many developers are considering headless CMS or SSG due to their excellent performance and better security.
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Franz Berliner
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This is probably not going to happen right?
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Hunain Kapadia
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Any update on this? much needed
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Giobi Fasoli
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A static site generator would be a wonderful thing.
Let be a staging domain with a CMS (wordpress or else), where I can generate the site.
Then a static space and public domain where the site is server with cached html files.
The export could be routined hourly, daily or on demand. The site could not have dynamic actions (forms etc) or maybe you could set some kind of api connection for that.
This would be stunningly useful for me, and it would save a lot of resource on high traffic sites.
Doing this on command line it's a single command (that I stole from github)
wget -k -K -E -r -l 10 -p -N -F -nH http://website.com/
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Anonymous commented
Yes please, for JAMstack deployments similar to Netlify would let us manage our WordPress and headless CMS projects in one place.
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Webmaster Cuatromedios
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And use the official HTML5 logo please https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#/media/Archivo:HTML5_logo_and_wordmark.svg
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Gareth
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+1
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GR
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Is this going to happen or what??
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Justin
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+1
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Anonymous
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Another vote for this. I can't imagine there are downsides. And what could be simpler to implement?
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DW
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Long overdue
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Paul
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This needs to happen. I have a few customers with static HTML sites and, currently, I'm having to use another shared host for them. I would much rather get them all over to CW.
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DMeechan
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Not sure why this still hasn't been added after 1.5 years. Seems relatively straightforward to implement and would be really helpful to many of us.
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Ryan
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Why are you still thinking about this?! I need somewhere besides GitHub to host all the Pixelarity templates I create for clients!
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Sumit
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Yes! That's it. I'm also looking for the same functionality.
