Linking to Structure Pages in Wygwam: How to not use full URL?

Question

I have a staging site running at a URL like client.clearbold.com.

I'm using FocusLab's Config, so all my paths and domains are dynamic.

When I link text in a Wygwam field, and choose a Structure Page or a Structure Listing entry, the full URL, including http://client.clearbold.com, is stored in the Wygwam field's contents.

How do I keep this from happening? We'll end up with a site with 100s of links to a Staging subdomain instead of the live URL.

Updated: I've confirmed this is fixed in 2.7. Surprised I haven't seen this before, though I'm wondering how many links were applied within content fields on previous projects.

Answer 1

It's all handled auto-magically. As long as you don't create links in source mode, it'll work when you change the domain/address/environment as of Wygwam 2.7.

See Also: Dynamic Filepaths to Assets Files in Wygwam Fields

Answer 2

I had a similar but different issue in my environment. Because my site is being reverse-proxied into another domain and uses CE-Cache, all links created with the "Structure" link type in Wygwam were getting cached with the Origin domain.

My fix was to add a line to wygwam/helper.php right after line 948:

$urls[] = str_replace("origindomain.com","destinationdomain.com",$page[4]);

This effectively ensured that all of those full-path Structure links generated within Wygwam fields rendered the destination domain rather than the Origin that's read by Akamai.