Huge Site links check! How??

Wind's Eye Design

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Dec 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/10/96

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Hello,

We have a huge site with lots of problems. Bad links, unloading
images,

What is the easiest way to check a site for bad links? Is there a way
to do it without having to run something page by page? Can something
automatically check every page in the domain? or directory?

Thanks,
Matt

Sander Tekelenburg

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Dec 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/11/96

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Try 'Big Brother'. I think you can get it at:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/

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Sander Tekelenburg
teke...@euronet.nl
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/

Callie

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Dec 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/11/96

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Wind's Eye Design <in...@windseye.com> wrote:

>What is the easiest way to check a site for bad links? Is there a way
>to do it without having to run something page by page? Can something
>automatically check every page in the domain? or directory?

Matt -
It would help if you specified what operating system you are
using or can download to:
For Win3.1 or Win95, SiteMan (Greyscale Systems) is good cheap
shareware that will work on a big, multi-level site to find bad
links. I test my links, then upload to the server into
directories of the same name.
I've tried HTML Power tools and can't get it to work right ...
they are trying to figure out why it keeps giving me a full
report on every file when I told it to tell me just the files
with errors. It does a decent job of HTML validating however,
and the bug fixers are prompt to reply to glitches.

UNIX has a passel of tools I haven't had to use in a while.
MACS are a total mystery to me.

With any of them:
1. Find the orphan files first ... many errors are because
you forgot to link a new file into the site.
2. Then check the HTML coding: bad code often gives
bad links.
3. Then check the whole site and start wading thru the
list of errors.

Once you have the site cleaned up, recheck on a local server
mirror (after any changes) before you upload to the public
server. Keeping it clean is easier than the initial cleanup.
Callie

Cal...@writepage.com | http://www.writepage.com
| Genre Fiction Publicity

Domingo Martinez-Castilla

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Dec 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/11/96

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Good Ol' Mosaic's (from version 2.x foir Windows 32 bit, and now sadly
dying just before finishing version 3) Autosurf does that for me, and
prepares a report, with or without images. And it gives you the added
benefit of showing your pages with a more compliant browser that renders
beautifuk graphics.

Find at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/index.htm

(when it is not down!)

Regards,

Domingo.

Domingo Martinez-Castilla
agd...@showme.missouri.edu

Arno van Boven

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Dec 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/11/96

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Wind's Eye Design <in...@windseye.com> wrote:

>Hello,

>We have a huge site with lots of problems. Bad links, unloading
>images,

>What is the easiest way to check a site for bad links? Is there a way

>to do it without having to run something page by page? Can something
>automatically check every page in the domain? or directory?

You can also try LinkBot. It's not that great, but it can do it.

Arno

_________________________________________________________________________
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| http://www.dataweb.nl/~arnovb

Tobias C. Brown

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Dec 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/11/96

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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:51:45 -0700, Wind's Eye Design
<in...@windseye.com> wrote:

>What is the easiest way to check a site for bad links? Is there a way
>to do it without having to run something page by page? Can something
>automatically check every page in the domain?

I beta tested SiteSweeper and it worked great. The price is too high
for me however: $299.00

http://www.sitetech.com/

Site/technologies might let you have a trial run though.

Tobias C. Brown
to...@enhanced-designs.com
http://www.enhanced-designs.com/
Pobox: tcb

Rick Hower

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Dec 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/13/96

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Check http://www.charm.net/~dmg/qatest/qatweb1.html

for a listing of 30 web site testing tools.
Included in the list are some PERL scripts that
can make link checking easy. There are also
shrink-wrap and on-the-web tools listed.

-- Rick

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Wind's Eye Design (in...@windseye.com) wrote:
> Hello,

> We have a huge site with lots of problems. Bad links, unloading
> images,

> What is the easiest way to check a site for bad links? Is there a way

> to do it without having to run something page by page? Can something

> automatically check every page in the domain? or directory?

> Thanks,
> Matt
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