Wagtail internal link urls arent working properly

Question

in my rich body text fields, when an internal page is used for a link, the url that gets attached to the a tag is "https//example.com/example", ie it's missing the colon and the link doesnt work. I get the error "https's server ip address could not be found".

any idea why it is doing this? thanks

Answer 1

Check the site record under Sites -> Settings. The hostname field should NOT contain https - i.e. it should be example.com, not https://example.com.

Answer 2

in case anyone else has this issue, it seems having more than one site in wagtail caused this. I had the default localhost site still on there, even after switching to a new production site configuration. deleting the localhost site fixed this.