We have a website built on an notes database. (This one: http://notes.inter-research.de/WWW/hessennet_info_v2.nsf - in German)There are quite a few dead links in it, and I’m searching for a way to find them all.
Of course there are tools to scan the website, but figuring out which Database entry belongs to the found links is pretty hard. Do you have an idea how to do this automatically?
Sadly I’m not that into Databases, this thing was built by someone else. ( I only have some basic SQL knowledge)
Subject: Check Database for Broken Links
I believe that a number of vendors offer tools that will report all broken links - at a price…
TeamStudio Validator would be one. www.teamstudio.com
Subject: RE: Check Database for Broken Links
Hm…because this is a one-time task and also could be done by hand in a couple of hours, we dont want to spend a few hundred dollars on special software.I just wanted to find a solution so the temp doesnt have to do this monotonous work.
Subject: RE: Check Database for Broken Links
If the tool you use results in a list of page URLs containing dead links, it’s not that hard to translate those back to locate Notes documents. Of course, if you edit the data in a browser you can just enter the link in a browser address field. If you edit them in Notes, you could automatically translate them to Notes URLs which can just as easily be used to open the documents. In most cases it will suffice to change the “http” in the URLs to “notes” and then the links will open in the Notes client. If you wanted to do it on a different server, you would have to change the servername too and maybe the filepath if the database isn’t at the same path on the other server, but that too is a simple mechanical process. If that doesn’t work, it’s not all that hard to map the URL back to the document – after all, the Domino server does it! But it would help if you would post the types of URLs you’re getting where the above doesn’t work, so we can suggest more specifics.
Subject: RE: Check Database for Broken Links
Oh Thanks.
Replicating the database and just replacing part of the URLs so it will point to the local replica really worked. This makes it a lot easier.