Broken Images

[internetheaven]

Looking for a way to stop broken images showing on my site. Due to the number of images in my /images/ folder and the number of pages there are sometimes errors in naming, uploading that aren't noticed for some time.
Is there any way to get a special "errorimage.gif" to show if that image fails to load. I tried putting:

ErrorDocument 404 h**p://www.example.co.uk/images/errorimage.gif

in the /images/ folder but that didn't work (surprisingly! ;) Anyone know a quick solution? This is for static pages by the way, I already have scripting that can do this on my dynamic pages.

[dreamcatcher]

Have you thought about running something like Xenu, which is a free link checker? It can scan your site and alert you to any broken links.

Type Xenu into Google.

[internetheaven]

It can scan your site and alert you to any broken links.

I've got over 1 million pages to look after so I haven't found a bit of software/online firm that won't charge me a fortune ...

[internetheaven]

No-one got any tips? Would there be a better forum to ask this one in as it relates to static pages rather than dynamic ones?

[jatar_k]

I have seen this on a few sites, I really have no idea how they do it, didn't really look into it that much.

[ergophobe]

How complicated is the script running this site? I know you have a million pages, but how hard would it be to change the way the images are being served?

For example, if all images are being displayed by a showImage() function or some such thing, you could ad in a check to see whether the image exists and, if not, serve up the default image.

Is that remotely reasonable?

[Sanenet]

...thinking...

Change the default error page to a script that alerts you every time it's called. This will allow you to upload the missing images.

Don't know if it works under Apache, but a missing .gif or .jpg under IIS calls the 404 page.

- NOT SURE, but isn't there a way with .Net to return an image file when you call a .aspx?