Questions tagged [broken-link]
Questions regarding broken links. Combine this tag with [bug] for broken links on the site itself; combine this tag with [discussion] for questions about broken links in questions or answers.
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How can users preserve information cited from Stack Overflow in version control systems?
Sometimes we find a post on Stack Overflow which explains the very thing that we are trying to achieve in our code. When we commit the respective code into our VCS, we do not write another lengthy ...
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Dead link for information about question assistant in Ask Wizard
I was about to ask my first question in SO. I noticed a sidebar talking about AI:
There was a link: "Learn more". It leads to a 404. What is the correct link?
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wiki.nginx.org links are broken
wiki.nginx.org is currently broken and there are about 1.4k posts linking the domain. Some of these are direct references (which need to be fixed). Others are from snippets of configuration files ...
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URL encoding bug results in broken blog link in the Community Bulletin
This link redirects to a "Page not found" page.
Here's the link.
https://stackoverflow.blog/undefined/kohsuke-kawaguchi-jenkins-ci-cd-cloudbees/?cb=1
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Rewrite docs.php.net URLs
Judging from these edits I made (listed below), removing "docs" from the URL fixes the link. For example, http://docs.php.net/book.mysql becomes https://www.php.net/book.mysql.
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Should we mass-redirect links to the Bash-Hackers' Wiki?
One of the major historical references for information on bash (and more broadly, POSIX-family shells) went down some time ago.
Formerly, this was https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/, which is now dead. ...
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Can't see lowest rated questions
If I go to the "all questions" page and sort by votes, I'm told there's 1,601,257 pages of questions:
However, if I click the link to go to the last page, I get a 404 error:
As questions ...
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PHP documentation links need a cleanup
Back in the earliest days of PHP, people ran various localized mirrors of the PHP website, including documentation. The main site has always lived at https://www.php.net but mirrors lived under ...
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Incorrect achievement link for edited post on another community [duplicate]
I've edited a post on another community (blender.stackexchange.com).
I have been informed that my edit was validated.
But the link inside the achievements' popup menu, is not correct:
https://...
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Bulk URL replacement for broken Java Bug Database hyperlinks in posts
Do we ever bulk update URLs? The Java Bug Database URL format appears to have changed from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6754672 to https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?...
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Edit out external broken links to refiddle (displaying spam)
I noticed that refiddle.com, a site likely used to test regular expressions, is no longer active and links to a spam site. An issue was raised on the official repo in 2021, but it appears that the ...
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All links on Staging Ground Guidelines Help Center are broken
In the Help Center article Guidelines and best practices for reviewers on the Staging Ground, every link except the first one is broken. The issue is that they point to something like http://help/how-...
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Profile link not working anymore
I noticed that now when I click on a user's profile, the page doesn't load and shows an error saying:
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error ...
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Update 4guysfromrolla.com links with their archive.org version
The website 4guysfromrolla.com used to contain a lot of pages with tips for SQL, classic ASP, etc., but sometime after October 2021, it has been abandoned and now contains gambling stuff.
This leaves ...
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Feature Request: [Broken external links] [duplicate]
I was looking for a solution to a problem related to rendering a JSON file in HTML. I searched on Stack Overflow and found the answer to a similar question referring me to another question which was ...