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Automatic Updates

Hi,

I'm a webmaster of a university website and one of the jobs involves keeping the links to various departments updated. Now once in while the departments change their web addresses due to a server issue or sumthing...Now as far as i know there isnt a way where the links on my website get updated whenver the referred website address changes...but you never know. Experts any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

patrvic

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My topic shud've been

Automatic update of links

My question is

is there a way where the links on my website get updated whenver the referred website address changes automatically without any user intervension.

-Thanks

mrichmon

No.

not unless the links are all relative and not absolute. So if all these webpages are stored as subsites of the main university site then relative links will do the trick. If they are separate websites then your best bet is to use some software to check for broken links.

Here is free software that runs fast and tells you broken links:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

patrvic

ASKER

Hey richmon,

I think all the webpages are subsites (is it cause all originate from the same server and behave as web pages ie subsites). Would you be able to tell me how i could do the relative links thing.

You will not make me responsible for damages (lost time, crashed computer, etc) : This killed my dream. I'll probably try the webanaylyzer thing.

Thanks

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mrichmon

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