# 500.html needs absolute links in original English texts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [7월 6, 2016, 3:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879 "2016-07-06T03:19:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [7월 6, 2016, 3:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/1 "2016-07-06T03:19:37Z")
Original string:
```
No further action is necessary. However, if the error condition persists,
you can provide additional detail, including steps to reproduce the error,
by posting a discussion topic in the meta category.
```
Here, the link should be absolute and link to the meta category of the Discourse Meta website - this is needed so that translators use the same absolute link in the translations as well. Otherwise it will link to a (possibly non-existent) local meta category.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7월 6, 2016, 4:01오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/2 "2016-07-06T04:01:19Z")
Hmm good point in fact that category is not even named that now out of the box in Discourse. Can you take this minor edit @neil?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 7:49오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/3 "2016-07-07T19:49:38Z")
> [@meglio](#):
>
> Here, the link should be absolute and link to the meta category of the Discourse Meta website
I don’t agree with linking to the Discourse Meta website. The site owner should be notified, not us.
The problem with putting a link in those static html files is that they won’t work on subfolder installs. We should avoid putting a link at all.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 7:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/4 "2016-07-07T19:58:04Z")
The ideal would be a link to a PM to moderators like:
```plaintext
/new-message?groupname=moderators&title=Site%20Error&body=topic%20body
```
This works because ember router intercepts even on subfolder installs, and make the link work.
It won’t work in a new tab however. And neither if the trust level is too low.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 8:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/5 "2016-07-07T20:01:12Z")
Ember isn’t loaded on [500.html](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/public/500.html), so it wouldn’t work there.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7월 8, 2016, 3:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/6 "2016-07-08T03:33:26Z")
Regardless the category name should be corrected it is no longer meta as of a while ago?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [7월 8, 2016, 6:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-html-needs-absolute-links-in-original-english-texts/46879/7 "2016-07-08T18:25:20Z")
I updated copy to remove the link and be a bit more vague.
> …by posting a discussion topic in the site’s feedback category