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

[Jamie A Lawrence]

On Mar 3, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote:

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


(Sorry to be slow - I just resubbed, and didn't realize I had a mail  
filter filing all my mail for me from last time I was on-list...  
wondered why it wasn't coming through.)


Yes, the config page does show what I expected (the correct  
hostname:port combo).

-j


> -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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