Broken Hyperlinks ../../../

[Liss]

Hi there, I ran a report to view broken hyperlinks and it came back with
over 9,988 broken hyperlinks with the following characters in front of the
url:

.../../sample.htm

So I went through the process of editing them all out to show the correct
format of:

/sample.htm

until I was down to 2,312.

I got back on the computer this morning and ran a report and would you
believe, today I have 12,000 broken hyperlinks and it's the Same exact
problem! They are all internal with those little annoying characters in front
of them.

Any ideas how to fix this issue?

I am running frontpage2003. Incidently, the site itself appears to be
functioning fine, but It's nice to be able to keep up with any broken
hyperlinks without searching through Thousands and thousands of "faux broken
links".

Thanks,
Liss

 

[Ronx]

Download FrontPage cleaner from
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm and, with FrontPage closed,
run the routines that delete the hidden FrontPage temporary files, and
delete the hidden web cache files.
Open the website in FrontPage and run Tools->Recalculate Hyperlinks
Then check the broken Hyperlinks report.

FYI, any link beginning with / will be on this report, and FrontPage is
not able to manage links of this form. The correct format for a link on
a page to a page in the same folder is sample.htm
.../sample.htm indicates sample.htm is in the parent folder for the
page, and ../../ indicates 2 folders up. FrontPage will always use this
method when creating links.

 

[Liss]

I downloaded the program & ran it, but now I get an error msg I've never
seen before that says: an error occurred ccessing your windows SharePoint
Services site files. Authors, if authoring against a web server, please
contact the webmaster. Webmaster- see the servers application event log for
more details.


I'm not sure where exactly to locate those logs to view the issue.

Thanks,
Liss

 

[Liss]

Ugh, Okay, I ended up having to completely reinstall FPSE, then recalculate
the web- After running the tool in the previously mentioned response. Then,
verify the hyperlinks of which 19,000 were now listed as broken, rather than
the 9,000 I was down to!

The issue remains, all of the links, although functioning correctly on the
site, are showing in the reports as broken internal hyperlinks.

They hyperlinks are showing as ../../page.htm

 

[Steve Easton]

The tool Ronx recommended didn't do anything to your extensions.
It's not even aware of their existence.

As for the broken links, what kind of navigation structure are you using?
JavaScript jump menus? Links used within JavaScript "can" show as broken in the hyperlinks
report.



--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

If the site was working fine, why are you messing with the links anyway?


|
| Ugh, Okay, I ended up having to completely reinstall FPSE, then
recalculate
| the web- After running the tool in the previously mentioned response.
Then,
| verify the hyperlinks of which 19,000 were now listed as broken, rather
than
| the 9,000 I was down to!
|
| The issue remains, all of the links, although functioning correctly on the
| site, are showing in the reports as broken internal hyperlinks.
|
| They hyperlinks are showing as ../../page.htm
|
|
|

 

[Liss]

If the site was working fine, why are you messing with the links anyway?<<

because I have over 75,000 links in my site, and when I click on a report to
view which ones are NOT functioning- it would be nice to have it correct so I
can fix the broken links, Rather than sifting through thousands of links that
ARE functioning to find a handful that really are defunct.

It's quite aggravating to have to use an external website to do a search
when I paid for FP AND EW and Neither of them function properly.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

holy cow...that's a mess o'links!

have you tried specialized link checking software?...like Web Link Validator
(I've used their free version) - worked pretty good.


| >>> If the site was working fine, why are you messing with the links
anyway?<<
|
| because I have over 75,000 links in my site, and when I click on a report
to
| view which ones are NOT functioning- it would be nice to have it correct
so I
| can fix the broken links, Rather than sifting through thousands of links
that
| ARE functioning to find a handful that really are defunct.
|
| It's quite aggravating to have to use an external website to do a search
| when I paid for FP AND EW and Neither of them function properly.
|
|

 

[Steve Easton]

By any chance are any of the links that are reported as broken links to external sites?
If so, keep in mind that some servers won't respond to the method FrontPage uses to check
external links and therefore they will be reported as broken.

This is a server setting issue and not an issue with FP or EW.

--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm