Link Checking Script

[Andrew Bates]

make sure you are running a combined apache log format

Logfile file combined

okay, now that you have that done..

use this one-liner

grep 404 {LOGFILE} | gawk '{print $7}' | sort -u

then if you really wanted to find where the link is... just take a line, 
then execute this command..

grep {LINK} `find {WEBDIRECTORY}`

as long as you don't have way to many files for it to search, it will 
find it.

- Andrew Bates

This should print all the 404 problems in your log file.

Michael wrote:

>Try using wget. Have it save it's results to a log file and search the log
>for errors. You'll quickly be able to pinpoint bad links.
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>>I've found so far, the only one that works is pretty buggy.
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