90% false positives

  • Resolved Ambyomoron

    (@josiah-s-carberry)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Using version 1.11.2
    I regularly get an email saying I have broken links, but about 90% of them turn out to be false positives. I cannot understand why, all of a sudden, a post that has not been touched for months, linked to an internal image that hasn’t been touched for months, should generate a false broken link message.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/broken-link-checker/

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  • I’m seeing a similar spike in “broken” links that aren’t broken. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 yesterday and have been fighting through issues caused by the upgrade to PHP7. I wonder if this is another side-effect of that upgrade.

    Found the problem!

    When I checked Show Debug Info on the Settings page for BLC, I noticed this:

    PHP version	7.0.4-7ubuntu2
MySQL version	5.7.11
CURL version	Not Installed

    It turned out that during my Ubuntu upgrade, the php-curl/php7.0-curl packages hadn’t been installed to replace php5-curl. Once I installed those, Debug Info showed:

    PHP version	7.0.4-7ubuntu2
MySQL version	5.7.11
CURL version	7.47.0

    And forcing a “recheck” marked all the false positives as working links.

    Interesting. So it seems cURL is indispensable and this should be flagged by the plugin.

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