Publisher review:Clean Sweep is a plugin that assists administrators of Movable Type in finding and fixing broken inbound links to their website. Clean Sweep is a plugin that assists administrators of Movable Type in finding and fixing broken inbound links to their website.
It was build to support two use cases:
- to help users get a clean start with their blog by allowing them to completely restructure their permalink URL structure and have a system that can automatically adapt by redirecting stale and inbound links to the proper destination
- to help users in the process of migrating to Movable Type who are forced to modify their web site's URL and permalink structure
Features
- Manage redirects in your blog using an easy to use user interface.
- Help maintain good SEO and page rank by keeping links fresh.
- No need to hack Apache configuration files until you are sure your redirects are correct.
Installation
- Unpack the Clean Sweep archive.
- Copy the contents of CleanSweep-1.1/plugins to: /path/to/mt/plugins/ and copy the contents of CleanSweep-1.1/mt-static to: /path/to/your/mt-static/.
- Create a page in Movable Type called "URL Not Found". Give it a basename of "404". Place whatever personalized message you want that will be displayed to your visitors when Clean Sweep is unsuccessful in mapping the request to the correct page or destination.
- Publish the page and remember the complete URL to this page on your published blog.
- Navigate to the Plugin Settings area for Clean Sweep.
- Enter in the full URL to your "URL Not Found" page you created in step #3. Copy that URL into the "404 URL" configuration parameter for Clean Sweep.
- In your plugin settings area for Clean Sweep, make note of the Apache configuration directive that Clean Sweep asks that you place in your httpd.conf or in an .htaccess file.
- Add the Apache configuration directive to your web server. This may be placed in your httpd.conf file or in an .htaccess file located in the DocumentRoot for your blog.
- Restart Apache
Requirements: ยท Movable Type
Clean Sweep 1.1 is a Perl script for Other Modules scripts design by Byrne Reese.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Clean Sweep 1.1 script details 
