Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. Configuration

2.1 Interactive Configuration
2.2 Setting Configuration Variables
2.3 LinkController Configuration Variables
2.4 Configuring Infostructures

3. Advanced Configuration

3.1 Advanced Infostructure Configuration
3.2 Authorisation Configuration
3.3 Configuring CGI Programs

4. Using LinkController to Check Links

4.1 Extracting Links
4.2 Testing Links
4.3 Reporting Problems
4.4 Email Reporting of Newly Broken Links
4.5 Examining Individual Files
4.6 Repairing Links
4.7 Making Suggestions
4.8 CGI Interface

5. Interfacing to other programs
6. The Emacs Interface

6.1 Finding Files with Broken Links
6.2 Finding Broken Links in Files Within Emacs

7. Administration

7.1 Setting up LinkController
7.2 Default Installation
7.3 User Administration
7.4 Cron Scripts
7.5 Link Database Maintenance
7.6 Link Ageing

A. Robots and Sensible Behaviour
B. Uncheckable Links
C. Absolute and Relative URIs
D. Bugs and bug reporting
E. History

E.1 Acknowledgements

Esoterica Internet Portugal
IPPT PAN Poland
The Tardis Project
Other Free Software Authors

F. Invoking the LinkController Programs

F.1 Invoking link-report
F.2 Invoking test-link
F.3 Invoking extract-links
F.4 Invoking fix-link
F.5 Invoking check-page
F.6 Invoking build-schedule

G. Packages Which Work With LinkController

G.1 The CDB utilities
G.2 The Tie-Transact-Hash Perl Module and Programmes

H. Terms

H.1 Infostructure
H.2 Link
H.3 Resource
H.4 URIs
H.5 URLs
H.6 URIs

Program, Variable and File Name Index
Concept Index