GoLive's Site Manager "dies" when trying to parse that many files to build it's data base... well, not really.. it does it... but ... takes 50 minutes to "refresh" ! and actually begins to generate spurious paths in it's in-and-out links dBase for the site. So despite all the really cool features... I had to abandon it (sigh)
Fortunately (trumpets, drums), Revolution to the rescue! Thanks to Ken Ray's old recursive, walk directories scripts... has no problem digging 10,000 files -- open, read, perform surgery, save and close... 3 minutes. ;-)
So all I *really* need out of GoLive's tool box is the ability to return a list of all internal link errors. Creating a matrix of (bad-URL & tab & Good URL & cr ) and making all the changes in 10,000 files is "child's play" for Revolution... but... how to find out what the broken links are...??
Has anyone written scripts that do this? Or know of any programs in the public domain that will do this kind of error checking? It could run either on Mac OSX -- our production-staging server in Hawaii-- or be installed in the Linux Redhat Distribution server in Connecticutt. I would run it there, get the list fix them all here and mirror upload... it's challenging with:
../../../images/color_alphabet/A.jpg
(as introduced by GoLive, used by some of out team)
while myself and our other code warriors who stay clear of WSYWIG and all my Rev web generator RADs manually strive for absolute root relative refs like
/images/color_alphabet/A.jpg
whenever possible. Of course one could just analyze the 404's on the server over time and get them all, but this means a full clean up could take weeks-months as the 404's trickle in.
btw... have been working with 2.5 now intensively for nearly two months, all day long, doing this and that...with a little time out for putting a magazine together... I think I had 2-4 unexpectedly quits in all that time... meanwhile, Apple mail.app and Adobe application go down at a much more frequent rate = Rev is one of the most stable apps running on OSX.
Congratulations to the Rev team for their focus on stability.
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