Patent ID: 7539740

Claim:
A web server managing method, comprising: acquiring log information resulting from an access from an external web site to HTTP contents from a web computer server; generating refer information by extracting linking relationship between a target web page referred to by a referring page containing a link of the external web site from said acquired log information; recognizing a possibility of occurrence of a link breakage caused by deletion of a page with reference to said refer information upon updating said HTTP contents, and generating mail information by extracting a site manager mail address of the external web site having a linking relationship from the log information of said web server, wherein when the link breakage is caused by the page deletion upon updating, transmitting an electronic mail for correction request of the external web site to the manager mail address selected from said mail information, and wherein in the acquiring of log information, a log file of said web server and/or CGI environment variable is acquired, and in said generating of refer information, refer information is generated by extracting a linking relationship between the target web page and the external web site from said log file and/or the CGI environment variable.