[Nfb-web] Web Site Link Checker

[Michael Baldwin]

I know there is a plug-in for word press that kind of does this. It checks
the links, but it does not change them, it alerts you to bad links and where
they are, and you have to change them.
I don't think it would be to hard to program something with php. Set it to
scrape all the urls from your website, and store those in a database. The
script would then go visit those URL's and see what the status code is, like
200 OK 404, 301 etc. URL's with 200 okay status could be checked every 72
hours or whatever you would like, and those that have 404 error's could be
checked more often until a certain point and then it could send off an
e-mail to alert you of the issue. If there is a permanent redirect, you
could be alerted right away. I am not sure you would want the script making
the changes. That would need to have the file permissions set at 777 or so,
unless the pages were dynamic and stored in the DB.

As far as available programs I am not aware of any, but I am sure they are
out there.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 21:50
To: nfb-web at nfbnet.org
Cc: Coldfusion Development
Subject: [Nfb-web] Web Site Link Checker

Good evening everyone,

    One task we as Web developers must deal with is checking our sites for
broken links and repairing them when necessary. I'll be starting a new
project and want to put in place a utility that will alert me when a link
has changed and if possible go out and search the Web and automatically fix
such links if it finds possible redirections. I'll be curious to hear about
all solutions for this task be they paid or a free link monitoring and
repairing program or service. All the best.

Peter Donahue


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