Links in posts lead back to my own blog!

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  ag1024 · Member · Jan 9, 2007 at 1:22 am

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  I just realised that many of the links in my blog posts are not working!

  Instead of linking to the website I though I linked to, they link back to my own blog, and the following text shows up:

  Doh!
  Something has gone wrong, the page you’re looking for can’t be found.
  (…)

  I have inserted the links with the link tool in edit mode (of course), sometimes in visual, but typically code mode. I have of courses checked the link addresses, and they are correct (would be surprising if they weren’t, as they are inserted using copy-paste).

  I have also tried re-inserting some of them several times, but it did not make any difference.

  Examples: in this post: the first link “Koomurri”, or “gruppens hjemmeside” (a bit down),

  or this post:
  almost all the way to the bottom; “Magpie sæson” and “meget hidsig”, just above the picture of a Magpie (black-white crazy bird).

  I have not checked on all links in my blog yet but have the feeling most of them have this problem, as most I checked now have it.

  Why do this problem occur??

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  drmike · Member · Jan 9, 2007 at 1:35 am

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  You’re forgetting the ‘http://’ bit in the URL. It has to be in there.

  For example:

  http://drmike.wordpress.com

  without the ‘http://’, your browser thinks the link belongs to your site.

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 9, 2007 at 1:49 am

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  Also, there was a period last night where, if you just pasted the URL in without deleting the “http://” that was already there, it gave your URL two, like this: “http://http://raincoaster.com” which didn’t work at all. I think it’s been fixed now.

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  ag1024 · Member · Jan 12, 2007 at 1:34 am

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  No, it was over a long period (most older posts).

  But the problem is solved now!

  I copy-pasted links in using the link tool in code mode and for whatever reason there are no http:// in many of the addresses, instead there is www!

  Plus, if there are both http:// and www in the adress it does not work either.

  So the way to go is to go through all the link code and remove www and insert http:// manually where it is missing…

  Now it seems to work.

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  ag1024 · Member · Jan 12, 2007 at 1:39 am

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  Thank you dr mike I did not see your post before answering…

  Yes that was it.

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  drmike · Member · Jan 12, 2007 at 1:39 am

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  Not a problem. I’m just glad we got it worked out for you. :)