Topic on Extension talk:RottenLinks

User that are on shared hosters usually have no shell access. Since they have no means of runnung php extensions/RottenLinks/maintenance/updateExternalLinks.php manually they can't use this extension.

Is there any way, that extensions/RottenLinks/maintenance/updateExternalLinks.php can be triggered as part of running the webupdater (mw-config) so this extension can be used as well? The only workaround currently is to import a recent dump of the mediawiki DB into XAMPP und running extensions/RottenLinks/maintenance/updateExternalLinks.php in the shell from there and then looking up and changing each link manually on the live version.

There's a lot you can't do without shell access on Mediawiki. I'll see what can be done but maybe consider a host with more control.

There used to be the MaintenanceShell extension that would allow you to run individual script. Since the "updateExternalLinks.php" script can potentially run for many hours it is not advisable to do this via the webupdater anyways. Indeed I'd also suggest to switch to adequate hosting.