# Strange behaviour with external links

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685 "2021-02-22T14:48:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![oldgustav](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/oldgustav/32/2477_2.png) [@oldgustav](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/oldgustav)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685/1 "2021-02-22T14:48:34Z")

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I have a friend who uses RW. He’s creating external links in the usual RW way - select text/object, right click, bring up add link box, choose URL option, insert url of external link, publish.

The problem is that when published the new link has acquired a prefix of the source page, eg. [https://www.nameofsite.co.uk/pageinquestion/https://www.externallinkurl.co.uk/pagename/](https://www.nameofsite.co.uk/pageinquestion/https://www.externallinkurl.co.uk/pagename/)

I hope I have explained that okay. Any ideas what’s going on?

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**Author:** ![joemart1951](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/joemart1951/32/1193_2.png) [@joemart1951](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/joemart1951)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685/2 "2021-02-22T15:23:43Z")

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Sounds like he didn’t complete the page url on the General page.

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**Author:** ![oldgustav](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/oldgustav/32/2477_2.png) [@oldgustav](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/oldgustav)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685/3 "2021-02-22T18:16:41Z")

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Asked friend to check - but he confirmed full url is in place, so it’s not that.

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**Author:** ![teefers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/teefers/32/8173_2.png) [@teefers](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/teefers)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685/4 "2021-02-22T18:52:06Z")

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Without a URL or at least a screenshot of what the link dialog looks like it’s hard to say.

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/strange-behaviour-with-external-links/37685/5 "2021-03-25T04:52:09Z")

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