Posting links

ctweed 29 Feb, 2020
I'm having trouble with posting links in an article. If I post a fully qualified url, https://www.example.com for example, clicking it behaves differently according to if I'm logged into the site or not. If not, it behaves as expected. If I'm logged in, it does a weird redirect to the site home page which pops up a message saying "You are not allowed to view this resource".

Also, what exactly should you be putting in these for url's a) In the site itself (outside the forums) and b) other topics/posts within the forums? I'm thinking of what prefix you'd use, leading slashes, "http" etc. If there are any docs on all this I'd really appreciate a pointer to them, thanks.
healyhatman 29 Feb, 2020
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Your permissions are probably set to only allow registered users to view the page you're linking to.

There shouldn't be any need to use a fully qualified URL just use a relative one.
ctweed 04 Mar, 2020
Answer
Testing here on this board:

FAIL External, no prefix: Google (entered "www.google.com")
PASS External, fully qualified: Google (entered "https://www.google.com")
FAIL Relative elsewhere on site: FAQ (entered "faqs"
PASS Relative elsewhere on site: FAQ with leading slash (entered "/faqs")
PASS Relative elsewhere in forums (entered "forums/posts/t108085/avatar-png-transparent-background")
PASS Relative elsewhere in forums with leading slash (entered "/forums/posts/t108085/avatar-png-transparent-background")

All as expected so it must be my site.
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