External Links

[davecjr]

I recently installed S9Y on Ubuntu for an internal business website. I have found that when I insert an external link in an article that most of the time when you click on that link that should go to an external website, it just takes you back to my initial S9Y front page. I have gotten a couple of external links to work but don't see why one works and most do not. I am new to linux and wonder if this may be a setting on the server that S9Y is installed on. Thanks in advance.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Could you give us an example URL of such an article? Maybe the links are simply malformed?

Best regards,
Garvin

[davecjr]

Sorry for taking a few days! Here is one that when you click on the link in the article, you get taken back to the front page of the blog.

<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/c ... ting_x.htm" title="USA">test</a>

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sorry, I meant the URL of a blog entry where you use that link

Best regards,
Garvin

[davecjr]

Sorry! Like I mentioned earlier though, it's on an internal (inside a firewall) website. Maybe that's part of the problem but it does work on some links and not on others. I'll try to figure out something different when some work and some not.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Oh, okay, I didn't get that then. You might need to post the full HTML code of the blog output so that we can see how the links are embedded there?

Best regards,
Garvin

[davecjr]

Here is the section where even a link to a document in the uploads directory just goes to the blog.
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<div class="serendipity_entry_body">
<a href="http://flbweb/exit.php?url_id=71&entry_id=42" title="http://flbweb/uploads/pool1.pdf" onmouseover="window.status='http://flbweb/uploads/pool1.pdf';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">$5 Pool</a><br />
<a href="http://flbweb/exit.php?url_id=70&entry_id=42" title="http://flbweb/uploads/pool2.pdf" onmouseover="window.status='http://flbweb/uploads/pool2.pdf';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">$1 Pool</a>
</div>



<div class='serendipity_entryFooter'>
Posted by <a href="http://flbweb/index.php?/authors/1-Davi ... ell">David Cockrell</a>
in <a href="http://flbweb/index.php?/categories/1-News">News</a>
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Does this help any?

Also, if you try to 'save target as' when right clicking on the link above, the file it tries to save is 'exit.php'.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Ah, this tells us that "HREF" rewriting is active. This happens because you have at least installed the "Track Exits URL" plugin installed.

It seems when calling exit.php it can'T find the mentioned URL and does no proper redirect. Why that is I sadly can't tell without viewing your Page online.

exit.php is a simple redirect script that should use a HTTP redirect to lead you to the target site. But disabling the Track Exits URL plugin could solve it.

Regards,
Garvin