Checking a website for incorrect links

Posted by scrubs on Jun 25, 2012 7:05 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Bob Mesibov
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When you build or update a website, it's a good idea to check that all the links on your webpages are OK. An excellent tool for doing this under Linux is the aptly named linkchecker, a GPL-licensed, command-line program.

However, 'OK' has more than one meaning. While linkchecker can check the URL you specify to see if it's properly formed and not broken, it can't tell you if the link points to the wrong URL.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

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