Checking for WEB Server Errors

Note: This documentation is for an old version of Webinator. The latest documentaion is here.

Checking for WEB Server Errors

After walking a site you might want to examine the error table to find out if there were bad links or otherwise unaccessible documents. The following will report all errors encountered since the database was created or wiped:

gw -st "select Url,Reason from error"

You can restrict the report to errors occurring in a specific time interval by using the id field as a date. The following will limit the report to errors occurring on April 20 1996.

gw -st "select Url,Reason from error
        where id>'1996-04-20' and id<'1996-04-21'"

The following will limit the report to errors occurring in the last hour:

gw -st "select Url,Reason from error where id>'-1 hour'"

The following will report the page that each bad URL occurred on:

gw -s "select refs.Url Page,error.Url Error,error.Reason
       from error,refs
       where refs.Ref=error.Url"