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#10107 Broken links, 404 errors

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 19 November 2011 05:36 CST

user50479



Description of my issue:
I just had a general question. Is there anyway to fix broken links, 404 errors, through admin tools?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.



Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the forum before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: (1.5.25)
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nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
No, because that requires the ability to crawl your entire site. Due to PHP and host restrictions, as well as Joomla!'s ability to create infinitely nested structures, this can not work reliably. Your best bet is using a commercial link scanner software application, running on your PC, which will crawl your site and after a few hours will produce a report of all the broken links and the links on which they appear.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user50479
Thank you. Yeah, I scanned and came up with 2 links. To images I deleted a while ago. And I can't for the life of me find these files using my file manager. You know of anything that automatically fax the broken links or redirect them so they won't turn up in page speed?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I don;t think so. If someone found a way to automatically fix broken links I guess he would own the Internet overnight :D "Fixing" a broken link is something manual. You have to figure out why you have a broken link and act accordingly. For example, it could be a missing file (replace the file or remove the reference), a moved resource (update the reference), a problem with the server setup (fix the server setup) and so on and so on. It's such a broad and fuzzy topic that makes automated tools impractical. Automated tools are good for simple tasks which have to be repeated numerous times or for huge lists of relatively simple tasks. This is where computers excel at. Anything which requires fuzzy logic is much better performed by human with incredibly enhanced precision and accuracy.

So, my advice is using a tool to identify broken links and your brain to figure out how to fix them. I know it's not very fun, but it's the most efficient way.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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