Default URL prefix

The default URL prefix is used to resolve relative or incomplete URLs. Basically you enter here how your Plone site is accessed usually (i.e. something like http://www.mycompany.com). This is of particular importance if you are authoring with a different URL than the public site.

If you are testing only the prefix might be something like http://mytestserver:24932/mytestsite

Note that the lms must be able to reach the server with this URL. When you're using a public lms (like http://lms.gocept.com) setting the prefix to http://localhost:332 is pointless.

Link Monitoring Server

Enter the address and the client id of your lms.

Crawling

When everything is configured right you might want to locate all the existing links and send them to the server. You should do this after the first installation or when unsure if all links are in the link database (i.e. after retriever assignment).

Please be aware that crawling consumes a considerable amount of time and might be very resource intensive.

Retriever assignments

You can set a mapping between portal_type and retriever here. CMFLinkChecker comes with a few preconfigured.

A retriever is the adapter between your content types and CMFLinkChecker: it retrieves the links of a content object and passes them to CMFLinkChecker. Since there are different content types there are different retrievers.

Note: if you have installed ATContentTypes via the site policy the portal types are different from the default portal types, i.e. Document is no longer the CMFDefault.Document but ATDocument. This is not a problem per se, but you need to be careful when assigning retrievers