[Typo3] Strange external links in rtehemlarea

[Philipp Albig]

Bart Veldhuizen schrieb:
> a client of mine is using rtehtmlarea 0.4.72 and they ran into the  
> following snag: their site has some area that are not managed by  Typo3. 
> Whenever they try to link to those by creating an 'external  url' in 
> rtehtmlarea, the links will not work and when reloading them  in the 
> editor they have a yellow background and a red outline. After  disabling 
> the RTE editor, it turns out that the the 'http:// <domainname>' has 
> been stripped off the link.

I had a similar (the same?) problem and found that it exists only, if 
the installation-directory is named "typo3".
People recommend to use a different name.

Greetings, Philipp