Link problem - Please help

TheAdvertisingMan

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Hi guys
I have this crazy problem and I'm absolutely unable to solve it myself.

There's a link in my website which leads to another domain, however when you click it it opens http://www.mydomain.com/"http://www.anotherdomain.com" and shows 404.

I'm not sure how to tell Wordpress that it's not a part of my site. The link should be set correctly <a href="http://www.anotherdomain.com">link</a> so the problem is somewhere else...

I'd really appreciate any input..Thank you

 

Conor

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Are you sure you included the http:// part in your href?

 

loedown

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Conor said:

Are you sure you included the http:// part in your href?

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This should like it might be the problem, however there is no telling without looking at it. It could also be an issue with the .htaccess.

 

TheAdvertisingMan

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Yes I included http://. That's the strange thing. Does anybody know a command to force website not to add its own address before the target location?

 

loedown

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The a href="http address" is the syntax. Is this a post or a link in a footer or something?

 

kickthat

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This is almost guaranteed to be incorrectly coded. Either take a really careful look at each character in the code for the link or copy and paste it here changing ONLY the domain name.

I guess it's possible that if you have a base tag set in the header it's messing with this? But I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be doing this if you are specifying http

 

TheAdvertisingMan

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Guys, I solved it using redirects. The links leads now to mydomain.com/redirect which sends user to another domain. Really don't know where the problem is but this is working. Thanks to all

 

tompots

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Make sure you making your hyper links in the format below

Code:

<a href="http://www.blackhatworld.com/">black hat world</a>

You can find everything you need at the link below.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

 

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mtinra

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This is not the normal way Wordpress print out the links, do you have other plug-in installed? and could you try to change the theme to normal themes which come with wordpress? if the problem gone then then problem is your theme.

 

Last edited: Mar 11, 2016