Jobos Posted January 12 Posted January 12 I don't normally work on the school website as the HT likes updating it but the HT asked if I could run a scan to check for any broken links which I did using https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/. A few broken links were found but one is on a page the HT has never seen before and between us we are unable to find the page on the backend. The output from the broken link checker only lists the page the broken link is on and not the referring page. The website is hosted by Webanywhere but unlike Joomla that I am familiar with Webanywhere doesn't have a list of articles or at least none I can see. What we are after is a tool that will scan our website and tell us what page is opening the page were the broken link is found, if that makes sense!
machy Posted January 12 Posted January 12 is the page with the broken link listed in the Sitemap.xml?
Jobos Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 5 hours ago, machy said: is the page with the broken link listed in the Sitemap.xml? No it’s not there
Gongalong Posted January 13 Posted January 13 If you chuck it into a google search i.e. site:yourschoolsite thebrokenlink, does that turn up where it is?
Jobos Posted January 13 Author Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Gongalong said: If you chuck it into a google search i.e. site:yourschoolsite thebrokenlink, does that turn up where it is? Did that before posting and it just gives the page with the broken link on.
tom_newton Posted January 13 Posted January 13 wget --mirror and then grep the output for the suspicious link?
TechMonkey Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Sorry, I may be having a brain fart here, but surely this Quote The output from the broken link checker only lists the page the broken link is on and not the referring page. is correct. You have a page that is showing a broken link. The link is broken so that page does not exist anymore, but the page with the broken link does. Or have I misread the situation? Or are you saying the link checker is only giving you the broken link, not where the broken link is located?
Jobos Posted January 13 Author Posted January 13 3 hours ago, tom_newton said: wget --mirror and then grep the output for the suspicious link? Thanks, I’ll try that tomorrow. 3 hours ago, TechMonkey said: Or are you saying the link checker is only giving you the broken link, not where the broken link is located? Let me put it another way… the scan tool listed a broken link and gave the url of the page with the broken link on. We can open the page easily and it has the current header and footer. The problem is we have never seen that page before and it not on the menus so puzzled how the tool found it. The logically explanation is there is another page linking to the mystery page but for the life of us it’s playing hard to find. You could probably leave the mystery page alone but its a privacy policy page that is very outdated as not been updated since 2021 by the old HT so the new HT is concerned someone will come across it and find the outdated info. I should add there is a new privacy page under a different name that the HT updates and is linked from the menu.
TechMonkey Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Some CMS' have some static pages, that aren't in the content pages but are accessed somewhere else in the admin area. Privacy is often one of them. Otherwise, it may be one of those great systems that the Privacy page is an include and only editable by the company.
Jobos Posted January 14 Author Posted January 14 23 hours ago, tom_newton said: wget --mirror and then grep the output for the suspicious link? Wget is complaining because the site is SSL and it cannot read it. Google search says I need to compile the source using a library so I'll put that on hold. 6 hours ago, TechMonkey said: Some CMS' have some static pages, that aren't in the content pages but are accessed somewhere else in the admin area. Privacy is often one of them. Otherwise, it may be one of those great systems that the Privacy page is an include and only editable by the company. Could be so I've emailed Webanywhere support to ask but normally don't like to give up without a fight but needs must.
tom_newton Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Probably the rancid windows inbuilt wget. I like windows subsystem for linux so I can have all my tools. If you DM me the site and the offending page, I will have a look today after work 1
Jobos Posted January 15 Author Posted January 15 With the help of @tom_newton the mystery page has been found and with hindsight it was on all the pages in the cookie control module. Clicking the star opens a flyout with the link to the mystery page. As we do not have access to the module I have asked Webanywhere to fix it. Thanks to all who have helped. 1
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