# Internal links create absolute paths - can they be relative?

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**Created:** [March 15, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/internal-links-create-absolute-paths-can-they-be-relative/2520 "2025-03-15T12:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![82MHz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/82mhz/32/1425_2.png) [@82MHz](https://zola.discourse.group/u/82MHz)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/internal-links-create-absolute-paths-can-they-be-relative/2520/1 "2025-03-15T12:21:29Z")

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When I create an internal link like it is written in the docu as `[my link](@/pages/about.md)` the path it creates on the website is absolute, so the link points to https://base\_url/pages/about/

How can I create relative internal links that point to /pages/about/ ?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/internal-links-create-absolute-paths-can-they-be-relative/2520/2 "2025-03-15T20:58:15Z")

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It isn’t possible

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**Author:** ![82MHz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/82mhz/32/1425_2.png) [@82MHz](https://zola.discourse.group/u/82MHz)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/internal-links-create-absolute-paths-can-they-be-relative/2520/3 "2025-03-28T07:23:18Z")

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In case anyone stumbles upon this post, here’s how I’m doing it now:

```auto
[my link](/url/to/page) 

```

With /url/to/page being everything after the base url. I hope this makes sense.

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**Author:** ![BobRocke](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/bobrocke/32/1439_2.png) [@BobRocke](https://zola.discourse.group/u/BobRocke)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/internal-links-create-absolute-paths-can-they-be-relative/2520/4 "2025-03-31T12:46:13Z")

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I like that a lot better – it seems much more portable from SSG to SSG.