At 06:26 -0400 08-06-2003, Dan Knight wrote: >On 6/3/03 3:30 PM, Ken Pope posted: > >>I'm looking for software that will run on OS X that will check a web site >>for broken external links (i.e., links to external sites that no work and >>either return a "file not found" or 404 message). >> >>There's no shortage of programs that will check a site's internal links, but >>I'm looking for X-compatible software that will identify broken external >>links. > >Look into Big Brother, which is available for both the classic Mac OS >(although I can't google a link at the moment) and also for most *nix >distros including OS X. > ><http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/bb.html.en>
I failed miserably in installing big brother and all it's obscure dependencies on OS X, perhaps I needed to sacrifice a goat or something but I didn't have one on hand. I did some digging around and found the following: <http://degraaff.org/checkbot/> It uses Perl (installed by default on OSX) and some perl modules which you might need to install (libwww, URI, HTML::Parser, MIME::Base64, Digest::MD5, and libnet): <http://www.linpro.no/lwp/> In addition to the listed modules I found I also needed to install HTML::Tagset <http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/HTML-Tagset-3.03/> To install a perlmodule simply download the targzip, uncompress (a recent version of stuffit expander will do) and (using the terminal): cd path_to_directory_that_was_just_created perl Makefile.PL make make test sudo make install Then use the commandline to run checkbot. It is noticably faster than BLT which was mentioned earlier. Cheers, Harold. -- http://www.haroldbakker.com Dreamweaver extensions, PHP, movies, sillyness It's here: The pet that rocks the world of Mac OS X: http://www.virtualpetrock.nl -- Mac Webmasters is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics has Lasso, Filemaker, and FileMaker Server on Sale! High Technology for low prices. http://www.smalldog.com Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Webmasters info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macweb.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac.webmasters%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
