# Email notification template GUI complains about %{base\_url}

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-template-gui-complains-about-base-url/279395>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 18, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-template-gui-complains-about-base-url/279395 "2023-09-18T14:36:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-template-gui-complains-about-base-url/279395/8 "2023-09-20T17:38:10Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Maybe what’s supposed to happen is that `%{url}` is supposed to include the host name.

I wouldn’t think that would be good practice, because then there’s no way to refer to the website root. %{base\_url} plays an important role for a reason, to allow building urls. In general, templating systems for urls offer 3 placeholders: base, path, full\_url, with the latter offered only for convenience (it’s the concatenation of the first two).

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