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cmcmorrow
Hi, I am re-posting this topic, since I accidentally marked the prior thread
as resolved. If anyone has any input on this issue, I'll be grateful.
I am using Visio's site mapping tool to generate a site map automatically of
my company's web site. For the most part, it is working extremely well, and
is very useful. However, I'm having one major problem, and that is that the
reports are not catching internal links that are broken. The site is
built in PHP, and the broken links are to other php pages within the site. I
do have PHP as one of the extensions to include in my drawing settings.
Visio has no problem catching broken paths to images, pdfs and other
documents on the site, as well as external links that are broken.
To illustrate the issue . . . I ran the report for this directory:
http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/index.php.
I know that there is a broken link on this page:
http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/faq.php
If you do a find on the word "recognition", you'll find it's hyperlinked to
a nonexistent script: http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/limelight.php
However, Visio shows is as a normal functioning page on the site map.
I went to a site that displays http headers
(http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/server-header.php), and entered in
my non-existent page's URL: http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/limelight.php
and I get this:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:33:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 18
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Other linkcheckers I've used, including the W3C's tool, catch the 404, but
Visio does not seem to.
Any ideas on what could be going on here?
Thanks!
-cmcmorrow
as resolved. If anyone has any input on this issue, I'll be grateful.
I am using Visio's site mapping tool to generate a site map automatically of
my company's web site. For the most part, it is working extremely well, and
is very useful. However, I'm having one major problem, and that is that the
reports are not catching internal links that are broken. The site is
built in PHP, and the broken links are to other php pages within the site. I
do have PHP as one of the extensions to include in my drawing settings.
Visio has no problem catching broken paths to images, pdfs and other
documents on the site, as well as external links that are broken.
To illustrate the issue . . . I ran the report for this directory:
http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/index.php.
I know that there is a broken link on this page:
http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/faq.php
If you do a find on the word "recognition", you'll find it's hyperlinked to
a nonexistent script: http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/limelight.php
However, Visio shows is as a normal functioning page on the site map.
I went to a site that displays http headers
(http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/server-header.php), and entered in
my non-existent page's URL: http://greencampus.harvard.edu/rep/limelight.php
and I get this:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:33:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 18
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Other linkcheckers I've used, including the W3C's tool, catch the 404, but
Visio does not seem to.
Any ideas on what could be going on here?
Thanks!
-cmcmorrow