A broken or dead link that points to a webpage or server no longer available.
A broken or dead link that has suffered from link rot and directs to a webpage or server that is no longer available.
Questions tagged [broken-links]
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Joomla Not Usinsg Alias?
I just transferred a Joomla website over to a new server and for some reason I cannot follow any of the links - they lead to 404 / index.php not found. I have my SEF and URL rewriting enabled and I am using alias in my menus etc. If I use the…
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Mozilla gets strange value in WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions JavaScript function
Where does the variable options.eventTarget come from?
How can I fix this function for Mozilla if it's generated by ASP.NET code?
What is this JavaScript function used for?
Mozilla Firefox gets this value for options.eventTarget at the end of this…
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How can I search for broken links of a website using Java?
I would like to scan some websites looking for broken links, preferably using Java. Any hint how can I start doing this?
(I know there are some websites that do this, but I want to make my own personalized log file)
The Student
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Broken INTERNAL link problem
I keep getting emails from django about broken INTERNAL links which I can't explain:
Referrer: http://www.emetor.com/forum/
Requested URL: /thanks/forum/
User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)
IP address:…
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Unwanted character in outlook with mailto
I use mailto to send mail using RTL language like Hebrew. I send plain text as recommended inside that content, I place one URL link, which turn out to be a hyperlink in outlook, but the link got broken.
What I found, there are some character like…
Kaustav Ghosh
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Python: test links, collect the path of broken links
I did a script that collect all the links from my website (internal and external) and give me the broken links.
Here is my code, it is working well:
import requests
# from urllib.parse import urljoin
from urlparse import urlparse, urljoin
from bs4…
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Checking status codes for dead links in a database preferably php
Hi I am trying to figure out a code for checking redirects in a database, is there a way I can test the URLs for broken or dead links every time the script runs? I have been tinkering with get_header and http_send_status but I'm a newb and am…
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Why are all images broken on my Github Pages?
I'm a new user of Git/Github and I'm traying to use Gitghub Pages for my project but for some reason the images are all broken. I was looking for solution but I did find no one with same issue :(
Github Pages:…
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how can i detect when flickr photos become unavailable?
How can I tell programatically when an embedded/blogged flickr image is replaced with a "photo no longer available" image?
With Ruby if possible.
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WordPress + Nginx on non-standard port behind AWS ELB results in broken links
We have a Nginx listening on ports 80 and 443 and serving our main website. Let's say its name is demosite.com.
It is running on AWS EC2 instance, and traffic is coming through an ELB.
I need to deploy WordPress on the same machine so it would be…
Sergey D
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Riak: are links dissolved if the target is deleted?
When an item is deleted from a store are links automatically deleted from all of the documents linking to the now missing item? Or do we have a situation that's similar to a broken link on an HTML page?
Mario
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Nested taxon url is no longer working
This seems to work on my local, but not on my production.
The number 4 in the error tells me its probably returning nil as it is 4 for any of the Taxon links.
Anyone know what else I can look into?
I clicked this link :
Trip
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link not working in Chrome but it works in firefox and safari
I am facing a weird issue that my menu has stopped working in chrome 66.0.3359.139. My menu has overlay/lightbox screen for the submenu. I just noticed that user is able to click only first column's submenu and rest of the submenu items are not…
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Efficiently detect broken urls in Java
What's the most efficient way to detect a broken url (HTTP 404) in Java? I'd like to do this in a loop and take as little time as possible.
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404 not found - broken links to CSS, images
I am experiencing a strange problem regarding broken links to the CSS and image files.
On our website everything works as expected. If you type in a non existing URL path such as http://example.com/test the 404 not found comes up as it should.…
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