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

[Erin Schnabel]

On 7/24/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 23, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Lee Meador wrote:
>> Resend

[snip.. ]

>> 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>.

[snip.. ]

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


IIRC, [link name>/arbitrary/path] works just fine. I've used it to
make [anchor links>#furtherdown]  on long, sectioned pages.


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