Tools For Checking Broken Spider Web Links - Business Office 2

Part 1 of this 2-part serial on Linux link checking tools reviewed the tool linkchecker. This post service concludes the serial yesteryear presenting approximately other tool, klinkstatus.

Unlike linkchecker which has a command-line interface, klinkstatus is alone available every bit a GUI tool. Installing klinkstatus on Debian/Ubuntu systems is every bit slowly as:

 $ sudo apt-get install klinkstatus 

After installation, I could non locate klinkstatus inwards the GNOME card system. No problem. To run the program, but execute the klinkstatus ascendance inwards a terminal window.

For an initial exploratory exam run, but specify the starting URL for link checking inwards the overstep business office of the hide (e.g., http://linuxcommando.blogspot.ca), in addition to click the Start Search button.

You tin give the axe suspension link checking yesteryear clicking the Pause Search button, in addition to review the latest results. To resume, click Pause Search again; to stop, Stop Search.

Now that yous guide reviewed the initial results, yous tin give the axe customize subsequent checks inwards gild to constrain the amount of output that yous postulate to manually analyze in addition to address afterward.

The program's user interface is really good designed. You tin give the axe specify the mutual parameters right on the nous screen. For instance, after exploratory testing, I desire to preclude link checking for for certain domains. To create that, larn inwards the domain names inwards the Do non banking concern gibe regular expression field. Use the OR operator (the vertical bar '|') to form multiple domains, e.g., google.com|blogger.com|digg.com.

To customize a parameter that is non exposed on the nous screen, click Settings, in addition to thence Configure KLinkStatus. There, yous volition observe to a greater extent than parameters such every bit the divulge of simultaneous connections (threads) in addition to the timeout threshold.

The link checking output is yesteryear default arranged inwards a tree thought alongside the broken links highlighted inwards red. The tree construction allows yous to speedily create upwardly one's heed the place of the broken link alongside honour to your website.

You may guide to recheck a broken link to create upwardly one's heed if the work is a temporary one. Right click the link inwards the effect pane in addition to select Recheck.

Note that right clicking a link brings upwardly other options such every bit Open URL in addition to Open Referrer URL. With these options, yous tin give the axe speedily thought the context of the broken link. This characteristic would endure really useful if it worked. Unfortunately, clicking either selection fails alongside the fault message: Unable to run the ascendance specified. The file or folder http://.... does non exist. This turns out to endure an unresolved linkchecker bug. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 workaround is to commencement click Copy URL (or Copy Referrer URL) from the right click menu, in addition to thence glue it into a spider web browser to opened upwardly it manually.

The link checking output tin give the axe endure exported to a HTML file. Click File, thence Export to HTML, in addition to select whether to include All or precisely the Broken links.

Below is a terminal Federal Reserve notation to my swain non-US bloggers (I'm blogging from Canada).

If I larn inwards linuxcommando.blogspot.com every bit the starting URL, the search is directly redirected to linuxcommando.blogspot.ca, in addition to stops there. To klinkstatus, blogspot.com in addition to blogspot.ca are ii dissimilar domains, in addition to when the search reaches an "external" domain (blogspot.ca), it is programmed to non follow links from there. To right the problem, I specify linuxcommando.blogspot.ca instead every bit the starting URL.

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