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

[Vincent Massol]

On Jul 28, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Erin Schnabel wrote:

> 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.

Cool, if this is a supported feature then we should document it on  
the wiki syntax page on xwiki.org.

Can someone confirm this is supported? (I'm offline on holidays so  
it's a little bit harder for me to check)

Thanks
-Vincent