# Rewrite external URLs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855 "2023-09-05T12:41:53Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855/7 "2023-09-05T14:49:18Z")

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That’s not enough to debug. That will (should?) match a google URL, but what are you trying to replace?

> [@Auto-Linkify Words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-linkify-words/82193/1):
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> `WORD, https://destination.url.com`
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> or using regular expressions (in [JavaScript implementation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions)) with the format
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> `/regex/, https://destination.url.com`

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