Features

• Asynchronous internal and external reference checking
• Bi-directional internal reference checking
• Balanced Score Card for fast strategic overview and detailed real-time information
• Mail notifications and reports for authors
• Full I18N support (English and German; partially French and Danish)
• Provides quick overview on all existing links on the site
• Compatible with Plone 2.0.5, 2.1 and 2.5beta
• Seamless integration in the Plone UI to support authors to manage their broken links
• Pluggable link finding architecture (for multiple content types)
• Supports all standard Plone content types automatically

You can find a detailed description of features for authors in the CMFLinkChecker feature document.

Current Releases

development

CMFLinkChecker 2.1 (not released yet)

development

CMFLinkChecker 2.0

Please note:

If you have your own LMS running you have to update it also to the latest version (svn trunk). If you are using our public lms you need to register a new client. The CMFLinkChecker configuration provides a link to the registration form.

To find out what has changed between the various versions, please consult the history document.

Requirements

• Python >= 2.3.4
• Zope >= 2.7
• Plone >= 2.0.5

Documentation

Installation

You can read the online installation manual which is also included in the downloadable package.

Further Documentation

Further documentation is available on the CMFLinkChecker documentation page.

Bug tracking

Please use our bugzilla installation to report bugs. Bugzilla also holds a list of current bugs.

Locations

• The product is available on our public ftp server at: ftp://ftp.gocept.com/CMFLinkChecker
• and available from public SVN:

  svn co http://svn.gocept.com/repos/gocept/CMFLinkChecker/trunk co CMFLinkChecker

Andreas Gabriel from the University of Marburg provided Debian packages for CMFLinkChecker (package name zope-cmflinkchecker) and the lms (package name lms):

# please add following lines to
# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de/linux/debian sarge zope
deb-src ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de/linux/debian sarge zope

Mailinglist

You can subscribe to the mailinglist available on linkchecker@lists.gocept.com. Simply send a mail with the subject "subscribe" to this address. Or visit the mailinglist archives.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Bertelsmann foundation for sponsoring the work on CMFLinkChecker and supporting the open source work of gocept in the Zope and Plone community.

Further Information

Christian Theune (ct@gocept.com) or Christian Zagrodnick (cz@gocept.com)