[rt-users] Weirdness with $WebURL and certain links

[Jesse Vincent]

On Mar 3, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Jamie A Lawrence wrote:

> Hi, all -
>
> I just set up RT 3.6.3 with RTFM (2.0.4, I think, but whatever the  
> latest production was about a week ago).
>
> Everything's fine (fully functional, and mostly already in use),  
> save one thing. Anchors in the 'Links' sections all point to  
> localhost, implicit port 80, instead of the configured host/port.  
> Only those - everything else just works fine.
>
>


When you viewed the "configuration" page in the Admin UI, what did  
you see? (Had your changes taken effect?)

-jesse


> I Set $WebBaseURL in SiteConfig, and then to be sure, hardcoded  
> $WebURL. I went so far as to do the same in RT_Config (I know, but  
> this was becoming cargo coding, and I changed it back.). Yes,  
> server restarts in between.
>
> So, I started tracing through the code stack, and came to lib/RT/ 
> URI/fsck_com_rt.pm. Sure enough, once I committed the ultimate sin:
>
> sub HREF {
>     my $self = shift;
>     if ($self->IsLocal && $self->Object && ($self->ObjectType eq  
> 'ticket')) {
>         return ( 'http://my.domain.com:8080/' . "Ticket/ 
> Display.html?id=".$self->Object->Id);
>         #return ( $RT::WebURL . "Ticket/Display.html?id=".$self- 
> >Object->Id);
>     }
>     else {
>         return ($self->URI);
>     }
> }
>
> It worked.
>
> (1) Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
> (2) Is this going to break something I haven't noticed yet (other  
> than the inevitable grief in a year when I upgrade and don't  
> remember that I did that), if I leave it in place out of expediency?
>
> TIA,
>
> -j
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