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# External links
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## Introduction
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The external links module is a task and ModelAdmin to track and to report on broken external links.
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## Maintainer Contact
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* Kirk Mayo kirk (at) silverstripe (dot) com
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## Requirements
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* SilverStripe 3.0 +
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## Features
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* Add external links to broken links reports
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* Add a task to track external broken links
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## Installation
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1. Download the module form GitHub (Composer support to be added)
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2. Extract the file (if you are on windows try 7-zip for extracting tar.gz files
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3. Make sure the folder after being extracted is named 'externallinks'
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4. Place this directory in your sites root directory. This is the one with framework and cms in it.
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5. Run in your browser - `/dev/build` to rebuild the database.
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6. Run the following task *http://path.to.silverstripe/dev/tasks/CheckExternalLinks* to check for broken external links
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## Dev task ##
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Run the following task *http://path.to.silverstripe/dev/tasks/CheckExternalLinks* to check your site for external
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broken links.
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If you have the queuedjobs module installed you can set the task to be run every so ofter
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Add the following code to the mysite config to run the job every 24 hours (86400 seconds)
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`Config::inst()->update('CheckExternalLinks', 'QueuedJob', 86400);`
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2013-08-25 23:49:49 +02:00
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