This is intended as a helpful hint for those dealing with massive site moves
...
Over the weekend, I activated a large site that has been around for a long
time. It has links pointed at it from many old sources going back years,
many of which are still important, but hard to figure out what and where
they are. It has been a very disorganized site for years, with tons of
content in the root and other content squirreled away in obscure directory
trees that mean nothing to anyone just looking at it. On top of that, there
are copies of the same content in multiple files which were edits done by
people maintaining the site with little website experience so tons of
duplicate outdated material. A real mess...
On top of all that, the site has had a number of conversions from HTML to
PHP and now to BW but with pretty much leaving what was there alone and
making new versions of it...
so I ended up moving a bunch of old stuff into some save dirs to see what
would popup missing over time. I could then either move the content into a
nonBW directory so it can be served as it is or reformat it into the system
as a new page. A lot of this stuff is verbose going back to the late 90's.
So, I have a fairly long mod_rewrite list of old links to new... that works
pretty well.
One problem was watching the logs looking for missing content... I needed
something that I could view without having to watch the web logs... I also
wanted to know what was getting hit more often as something that is more
important that some stray hit over time.
So I modified the action.missing page and added in the section where the
visitor has not write access the following which I made part of the error
message:
[(info counter field={wv-requri} target=info.pagefail)]
This uses the same code context that I got from Dan for creating a simple
page counter, but goes to the different page called info.pagefail. It picks
up the URI from my webvisitors plugin and adds it to the list. Each missing
hit has a counter at the end and each time is is hit, the counter increases
making it easier to see what is getting hit more often.
Then by looking at that page, I can see which pages are missed and how often
they are occurring.
Has been very useful... Now all I have to do is look at that page and I can
quickly see any real missing content without having to parse through the log
files.
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