Re: 404s

[Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>]

Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:09 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > Do we keep track of 404 errors on the .org website?
> > > The spider logs internal errors (or used to, I haven't looked at
> > > recent versions). Why, did you find one?
> > Yes. I'm trying to understand why we didn't spot the 404s, nor perform a
> > link check that would do that.
>
> Probably because noone checked the log recently (we know if errors
> occur through other channels, but not 404 warnings).

well the logs still have a fair number of false positives.
This partly due to  the mirror script being a bit careless at times in 
what it should consider a valid url and the other part is url's that we 
once had and referenced in say a press release that are no longer valid 
(be it website reorg or a decision to rename directories on the ftp site).
otoh it seems that we have at least one really broken URL in the press 
FAQ page - will see if we can fix that ...


Stefan