# Handle external urls in topic body for subfolder installation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/handle-external-urls-in-topic-body-for-subfolder-installation/75330>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 4, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handle-external-urls-in-topic-body-for-subfolder-installation/75330 "2017-12-04T09:40:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Rapekas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ivan_rapekas/32/248924_2.png) [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handle-external-urls-in-topic-body-for-subfolder-installation/75330/1 "2017-12-04T09:40:57Z")

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Hi, we have a forum installed in subfolder, `https://www.cuba-platform.com/discuss` . The main website has a store located at `https://www.cuba-platform.com/store` . I would like to share this link in some topic or post of our forum. But Discourse handles this URL as internal, it adds **/discuss** to the URL: `https://www.cuba-platform.com/discuss/store` when I click the link in composed message.

The workaround I found - to use a link without **www**. But I would like to have a permanent solution, because users may publish any external links pointed to our website/old forum and those links will be always dead, and users do not know about the workaround.

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