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Is there a better way to check for broken internal and external links using CQ 5.5?

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October 16, 2015
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Help! Is there a way to get a report on all the links that are not working in CQ - links to external and internal pages? There must be a better way to check the links than going through each page and see if there is a red highlighted items. We have CQ 5.5. We are a large state agency with thousands of pages.

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Best answer by Sham_HC

HI Charles Boisseau,

This important feature added in aem6. However for 5.5 follow [1] & sorry it is tiresome approach. Otherwise need to build your own.

[1]
* From link checker (/etc/linkchecker.html) find invalid links.
* Go to search (http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer/ui/search.jsp ) and find for that url.
* From results which page it is and modify accordingly.

Thanks,
Sham
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Sham_HCAccepted solution

Level 10

HI Charles Boisseau,

This important feature added in aem6. However for 5.5 follow [1] & sorry it is tiresome approach. Otherwise need to build your own.

[1]
* From link checker (/etc/linkchecker.html) find invalid links.
* Go to search (http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer/ui/search.jsp ) and find for that url.
* From results which page it is and modify accordingly.

Thanks,
Sham
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ClintLundmark

Level 3

Sham,

Does this process check internal links? I have a similar question from one of our users. They want to know something like - "What are all the broken links in our HR pages?" Specifically they are looking for internal.

Also in the second step, what do you mean by "find for that url"?

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clint

Sham_HC

Level 10

For internal links need custom implementation & not available oob. Filled enhancement request CQ5-7306

I mean invalid links of url