Wagtail internal link urls arent working properly

Question

in my rich body text fields, when an internal page is used for a link, the url that gets attached to the a tag is "https//example.com/example", ie it's missing the colon and the link doesnt work. I get the error "https's server ip address could not be found".

any idea why it is doing this? thanks

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '20 at 10:15

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Check the site record under Sites -> Settings. The hostname field should NOT contain https - i.e. it should be example.com, not https://example.com.

answered Oct 06 '20 at 10:15

gasman

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I did think about that. I had set it with the https://, so i removed it but no luck. I guess the existing pages are all still using the old host name in their url in the db – b00n. Oct 06 '20 at 10:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '20 at 11:09

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in case anyone else has this issue, it seems having more than one site in wagtail caused this. I had the default localhost site still on there, even after switching to a new production site configuration. deleting the localhost site fixed this.

answered Oct 06 '20 at 11:09

b00n.

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If there is only one site, then Wagtail will generate local urls to keep things simple (i.e. `` rather than ``) - this avoids any issues with host records being set incorrectly. – gasman Oct 06 '20 at 14:10

Wagtail internal link urls arent working properly

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