Why & Why Dosen't Link Work
 

On my website if I enter http://www.cdlassociation.com/blogs/cpap.htm into a blog link it shortens it to a visable http://www.cdlassociation.com and takes you the .com not the htm file. If it the message is edited it shows the address correctly. How do I fix this?

If I put http://cdlassociation.com/blogs/CPAP.htm into explorer address field it works.

But in VB5 Blog it says it is an invalid link

How do I get to work?

Also why does everything here works different than my site?
1. I have no spell check
2. Links and ... here work ok

<a href="http://www.cdlassociation.com/forum/blogs" target="_blank">http://www.cdlassociation.com/forum/blogs</a>

you should add the www. to your htaccess file stop members removing it

naaah that just takes them to my forum blogs.
The objective is to let people on my forum read a htm file that I wrote and stored on my website server
Not to take them to the website

NOTE ORIGINAL POST
leaving the www out you can view the post here on this site

Putting the www in directs you to a bad page

why does it work here and not on my site
vb code on
img code on
which does not show in message window as it does here, why is my site so different
why don't I have spell check too
There is no Posting Rules:

I'm not sure I understand your question, exactly. However, I didn't notice something in the examples you provided. Which may, or may not, be related. Your URL is case sensitive, so the first one you posted is invalid with or without the www.

VALID
http://www.cdlassociation.com/blogs/CPAP.htm
http://cdlassociation.com/blogs/CPAP.htm

INVALID
http://www.cdlassociation.com/blogs/cpap.htm
http://cdlassociation.com/blogs/cpap.htm

Great catch! :)

Posted blog and inserted http://www.cdlassociation.com/blogs/CPAP.htm/ as link

Look at Getting ready for a Sleep Apnea Study blog to see the problem and what happen

remove the / or it wont work for you need to be
http://www.cdlassociation.com/blogs/CPAP.htm without the / like
http://www.cdlassociation.com/blogs/CPAP.htm/

thanks your right!

It still does not work. If I edit the blog it shows the link as you have above. When I save it. It shows http://www.cdlassociation.com it omits the /blogs/CPAP.htm

Why?

Do you have any kind of a plugins running that alter the content of links in posts?

No nothing added to VB5




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Note: none in the forum

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I did note in VB5 Control Panel that htm code is not allowed in forum post and ...
VB5 strongly recommends to keep this setting

I meant vB plugins. Anything running on your forum that affects postbit URLs?


Okay, then. You might want to check the bug tracker for vB 5 and see if this already a known issue with blogs.


Yeah, that's not a good idea for a public board. That's more for private boards with limited access, or boards that don't care if they get XSS'd.