BBCode generates wrong link

[ErikV122025]

I've installed phpBB v3.3.14 and using the BBCode url tags generates the wrong url, ie. when I'm posting www.site.com the link gives https://www.mysite.com/phpbb/www.site.com. The allowed_schemes_links do have the standard value http,https,ftp. Whats is the solution for this behaviour?

[rxu]

Looks like phpBB bug.

[Brf]

When you use that form of URL bbcode, you need to include the http or https as shown in the BBCode help topic.

[ErikV122025]

Thnx very much! I didn't know that ..

[rxu]

IIRC www.site.com shouldn't have became https://www.phpbb.com/community/www.site.com before, like it is now in the 1st post here. Unless I'm missing something.

[Brf]

You are missing something.
The first post is using [url]www.site.com[/url] not the magic www.site.com

[Steve]

You are missing something.
The first post is using www.site.com not the magic www.site.com

But why is it adding this board url at front? Edit: It also happens on my forums.

[Brf]

But why is it adding this board url at front? Edit: It also happens on my forums.

If you are not including the http, it assumes it is a relative link. That is the way the standard http href tag works.

[Steve]

That needs fixed.

[Brf]

That needs fixed.

Try it yourself.
Put <a href="www.site.com">www.site.com</a> in an html file and see where it goes. That is how the URL bbcode works.

[Steve]

What forum owner would want to return that URL because of a user's input error? It would be a 404 Frenze.

[rxu]

Unable to reproduce this on a clean phpBB 3.3.14 install on localhost though. There should be something else affecting that behavior.
Sorry, totally missed that it's about wrapping the link into [url][/url] tags.
But actually that's not even needed because plain www.site.com is getting "magically" translated to the link itself.