Forum OpenACS Q&A: Redirction to external hosts is not allowed

hi,
I have recently installed 5.5 version. I was using 5.1.5 earlier. I am facing a strange issue in 5.5 version. When I try to redirect the home page to my static page it says; "Redirection to external hosts not allowed" whareas both OpenACS & static pages are on same server.

The detailed error output is as below:
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Redirction to external hosts is not allowed.
while executing
"error "Redirction to external hosts is not allowed.""
(procedure "ad_returnredirect" line 13)
invoked from within
"ad_returnredirect $redirect_url"
invoked from within
"if { $redirect_url ne "" } {
ad_returnredirect $redirect_url
ad_script_abort
}"
("uplevel" body line 29)
invoked from within
"uplevel {
# packages/mbryzek-subsite/www/index.tcl

ad_page_contract {

@author mailto:rhs@mit.edu
@author mailto:mbryzek@mit.edu

@creation-date 2000-..."
(procedure "code::tcl::/var/www/open_qualex/packages/acs-subsite/www/ind..." line 2)
invoked from within
"code::tcl::$__adp_stub"
invoked from within
"if { [file exists $__adp_stub.tcl] } {

# ensure that data source preparation procedure exists and is up-to-date
adp_init tcl $__adp_stub
..."
("uplevel" body line 3)
invoked from within
"uplevel {

if { [file exists $__adp_stub.tcl] } {

# ensure that data source preparation procedure exists and is up-to-date
adp_init t..."
(procedure "adp_prepare" line 2)
invoked from within
"adp_prepare"
invoked from within
"template::adp_parse [file root [ad_conn file]] {}"
(procedure "adp_parse_ad_conn_file" line 6)
invoked from within
"$handler"
("uplevel" body line 2)
invoked from within
"uplevel $code"
invoked from within
"ad_try {
$handler
} ad_script_abort val {
# do nothing
}"
invoked from within
"rp_serve_concrete_file [ad_conn file]"
(procedure "rp_serve_abstract_file" line 60)
invoked from within
"rp_serve_abstract_file "$root/[ad_conn extra_url]""
("uplevel" body line 2)
invoked from within
"uplevel $code"
invoked from within
"ad_try {
rp_serve_abstract_file "$root/[ad_conn extra_url]"
set tcl_url2file([ad_conn url]) [ad_conn file]
set tcl..."
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thanks in advance,
Ratnakar

Hi Dave,
Thanks for reply,
I am not using any code to redirecting to my static page. I am using 'IndexRedirectUrl' parameter from the subsite parameters to redirect to static page on the same server & not on any external server.
(My redirect page is http://localhost/index.htm)
I have hostname defined in (oacs path)/etc/config.tcl.

Where we can use '-allow_complete_url'?

Ratnakar

Hi Deds,
Tried this but it didn't work as my OpenACS installation listens on 8000 port & my apache server (who serves the static page- index.htm)is listening on 80 port.

So when I put /index.htm only; it gave (servername:8000/index.htm) page not found error.

Thanks,
Ratnakar

Ryan, that is reasonable, but, that should probably be a relative URL anyway.