Check for broken links

[richelbilderbeek]

Dear maintainer(s),

I've found some broken links on your website. However, as you seem comfortable using CI, here I submit a CI link checker. The scripts are used in many place, e.g. the UPPMAX documentation. To find broken links, search for error :-)

This PR will break the build, as it exposes some links that have become broken 👍

Cheers, Richel Bilderbeek

[bast]

Thanks so much!

[bast]

Sorry for taking some time to follow up. And I don't want to invalidate the good work and good effort but there might be an easier way for us here with zola check which does this without introducing external tools.

Advantages:

• No extra tools.
• It seems to understand better internal links which seem to trigger errors in the other workflow.

Currently 28 broken links, most of them in blog posts linking to links which expired.

[bast]

But in any outcome we should I think check for broken links and also fix them now so I appreciate the initiative.

[bast]

I am working on fixing broken links in #928.

[bast]

My recommendation after doing the work in #928 is that we should check for broken links with "zola check" since it allows us to ignore certain patterns in config.toml:

coderefinery.org/config.toml

Lines 34 to 38 in 955cd76

	# do not check blog posts for broken external links
	ignored_files = [
	"*/content/blog/*",
	"*/content/open-house/*",
	]

[samumantha]

Do I understand correctly that "zola check" is now implemented in our build automation and therefore this PR can be closed?

[bast]

Zola check is not run automatically. I ran it locally when working on #928. We should run it automatically.

[samumantha]

Thanks again @richelbilderbeek for bringing this up! A check for broken links is indeed a good idea.
As discussed above we have implemented the link check now via zola in #938 . Therefore closing this PR.

[richelbilderbeek]

@samumantha yes, I am happy the links are now checked (and I care less about a PR getting accepted: the goal of it has been reached). Well done and keep up the good job!