[opencms-dev] Absolute links to different webapps in same server as site root gets changed to relative links

[Nacho Fernández]

Hi all,

Haven't found a solution looking up similar problems in the mailing list 
archive, so I'll try to shout out my problem:

I have an OpenCms installation residing in a web server (let's call it 
https://myserver) with OpenCms itselft not as root webapp but deployed 
as /portal

The url https://myserver it set as "site root". Whenever I try to create 
an absolute link to a different webapp inside my server, which I need to 
do quite often, be it with the inline editor or directly editting the 
control code, OpenCms changes it automatically to a relative link 
pointing inside https://myserver/portal, ruining the link in the 
process. For instance, if my webapp is called "mywebapp" and I want an 
absolute link https://myserver/mywebapp/whatever it gets changed inside 
the control code to a relative link to /sites/default/mywebapp/whatever 
which translates when I want to click it 
into https://myserver/portal/mywebapp/whatever

Is there anyway to configure out this annoying behaviour? Can I just 
simply not list my actual server as the "site root", as I assume it is 
what OpenCms is using, without breaking anything important such as 
access to the workplace or static export? I already tried listing the 
site root as "http://myserver" (the not secure alternative) and it keeps 
behaving exactly the same.

I would be REALLY grateful if I could get some hints from anyone. Thank 
you in advance,

Nacho Fdez.