Cookbook: Check your MIK configuration values

To check your configuration options, run MIK and include the --checkconfig (or -cc) option with a value of of "snippets", "urls", "paths", "aliases", "csv", or "all'":

• ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig snippets checks your metadata mappings snippets for well formedness (not validity againt a schema).
• ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig urls checks all URLs in your config file to make sure they are accessible.
• ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig paths checks to make sure that all the paths to files and directories in your configuration file exist (except for [LOGGING] path_to_log, which is created as needed)
• ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig aliases checks whether all CONTENTdm components' "alias" values are identical.
• ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig csv checks whether all rows in the input CSV metadata file have the same number of columns, and whether the column headers are unique.
• ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig all checks all of the above.
• Add the --ignore_null_mappings parameter (e.g. ./mik --config foo.ini --checkconfig all --ignore_null_mappings) to skip checking any null values in your mapping CSV. If you are using null values to call on metadata manipulators, --checkconfig will see them as malformed XML unless you use this parameter.

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