Understanding BaseURL and links

[gleicher]

Thank you.

I should create a new “test site” that is as small as possible, yet shows the problem.

I think this is my problem:

CanonifyURLs & RelativeURLs interaction

PSA: CanonifyURLs and RelativeURLs interact with each other, and in particular if you use RelativeURLs=true, you may want to use CanonifyURLs=true also. If both are true, CanonifyURLs will not actually canonify all your relative urls… It will however change the way the internal RelURL and adding context root to urls happens… I wish I had known/seen this earlier because it works around some of the main problems I’d written about in my comments in the below linked topics. I didn’t see this in…

But, it doesn’t help me understand how things work.

My problem isn’t making things work - its understanding all the machinery so I can use it correctly.

Knowing how to avoid having baseURL chopped (sometimes) doesn’t help me why it was happening in the first place.

Thank you,

Mike