Avoid 'Please enter a URL'

  • Hi,

    is there a way to avoid the Link Field forcing me to enter an absolute URL?

    I had been entering relative urls for all my entries (the system is only used by myself and links to pages within my site), and now every time I try and edit a record the Link Fields will only accept absolute urls.

    I was looking into changing from http to https in the future, and I’m worried that I will have to re-edit every absolute link in my database.

    Thanks in advance for your help.
    Ian

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    A relative link is not, strictly speaking, a URL, so you can’t use such a link in a “link” element. So, you’re using link fields in Participants Database to hold links to your own site? It wasn’t really designed for that, so yeah, you would have to alter the database if you had a bunch of HTTP URLS to your own site, then went with HTTPS.

    Have you tried using URLs without the protocol? That should work…for instance

    https://xnau.com

    is written as:

    //xnau.com

    and the browser uses HTTP or HTTPS to make the connection.

    Thread Starter ighulme

    (@ighulme)

    I tried the link without the http: but it doesn’t work I’m afraid.

    Oh well, many thanks for your reply.

    Ian

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    Yeah, I see it doesn’t work.

    It is possible to use a database query to change all your local https:// values to https:// so you can do that when the time comes.

    Thread Starter ighulme

    (@ighulme)

    I’ll try that, thanks. ??

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