Recursive wget won't work

Question

I'm trying to crawl a local site with wget -r but I'm unsuccessful: it just downloads the first page and doesn't go any deeper. By the way, I'm so unsuccessful that for whatever site I'm trying it doesn't work... :)

I've tried various options but nothing better happens. Here's the command I thought I'd make it with:

wget -r -e robots=off --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.79 Safari/537.4" --follow-tags=a,ref --debug `http://rocky:8081/obix`

Really, I've no clue. Whatever site or documentation I read about wget tells me that it should simply work with wget -r so I'm starting to think my wget is buggy (I'm on Fedora 16).

Any idea?

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EDIT: Here's the output I'm getting for wget -r --follow-tags=ref,a http://rocky:8081/obix/ :

wget -r --follow-tags=ref,a http://rocky:8081/obix/ --2012-10-19 09:29:51-- http://rocky:8081/obix/ Resolving rocky... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to rocky|127.0.0.1|:8081... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 792 [text/xml] Saving to: “rocky:8081/obix/index.html”

100%[==============================================================================>] 792 --.-K/s in 0s

2012-10-19 09:29:51 (86,0 MB/s) - “rocky:8081/obix/index.html” saved [792/792]

FINISHED --2012-10-19 09:29:51-- Downloaded: 1 files, 792 in 0s (86,0 MB/s)

Answer 1

Usually there's no need to give the user-agent.

It should be sufficient to give:

wget -r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12955253/recursive-wget-wont-work

To see, why wget doesn't do what you want, look at the output it is giving you and post it here.