[xwiki-users] Fwd: External link to same server

[Vincent Massol]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Lee Meador wrote:

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> From: Lee Meador <lee at leemeador.com>
> Date: Jul 16, 2007 2:48 PM
> Subject: External link to same server
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> The links documentation tells how to add a link to another wiki  
> page and a link to a URL like http://yahoo.com
>
> I would like to link to a URL that isn't inside the xwiki  
> application but is on the same server without putting in the  
> hostname or ip address. If I was doing this in html, I would use  
> "<a href="/otherapp/home">Other App</a>.
>
> I tried the form [/otherapp/home] and simply /otherapp/home but  
> those don't generate the right link. (The first comes out as a link  
> to an xwiki page. The second comes out as plain text.)
>
> Is there a way to do this?

Yes with HTML... :)

The wiki syntax is for generating links to pages (aka documents).  
There's no wiki syntax for generating general purpose links.

-Vincent

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