 readme  id readmetxt v 1228 20090910 212457 hass exp link checker installation 1 place the entire linkchecker folder into your modules directory 2 go to administer site building modules and enable the link checker module 3 go to administer site configuration link checker and enable the node types to scan 4 check all html tags that should be scanned 5 adjust the other parameters if the defaults don t suit your needs 6 save configuration 7 wait for cron to check all your links this may take some time if links are broken they appear under administer reports broken links if not make sure the cron is configured and running properly on your drupal installation the link checker module also logs somewhat useful info about it s activity under administer reports recent log entries recommended 1 for internal url extraction you need to make sure that cron always get called with your real public site url for eg http examplecom cronphp make sure it s never executed with http localhost cronphp or any other hostnames or ports not available from public otherwise all links may be reported as broken and cannot verified as they should be to make sure it always works it s recommended to configure the baseurl in the sites settingsphp with your sites url better save than sorry known issues 1 drupalhttprequest does handle invalid nonabsolute redirects http drupalorg node 164365 until this issue is fixed in core the permanently moved links are not automatically updated by the update permanently moved links feature to the newly provided url workaround manually fix these links or try the patch  