Xenu

Xenu checks departmental and personal web site for broken links (internal and external), redirected links, FTP and gopher sites. It creates a report that lists:

  • Broken links, ordered by link
  • Broken links, ordered by page
  • List of redirected URLs
  • List of FTP and gopher URLs
  • List of valid URLs you can submit to a search engine
  • Site Map of HTML pages with a Title

Xenu is available by:

  1. Click the Application Explorer icon on your desktop
  2. Click on All
  3. Click on Xenu, it will open with a blank window.
  4. Click on File,
  5. Check URL, enter the URL to be checked in the top box.

For departmental pages enter www.lycoming.edu/deptid/
For personal pages enter www.lycoming.edu/~loginid

If you have a large web site you will want to click on more options and change the threads to 70. Once Xenu is done it will offer to create a report.

Clicking on Yes brings up a nice report in your web browser.
Clicking on No allows you to look at the info in Xenu, click on the headings to sort by that field. Typing R will create the browser report for you again.

If you have any questions feel free to contact Diana Cleveland.