Title: Plugin rewriting urls Last modified: October 24, 2017 --- # Plugin rewriting urls * [ericna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericna/) * (@ericna) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rewriting-urls/) * This plugin is rewriting my urls. Here is an example: * I am able to upload files to my media library and it successfully loads it onto s3 and gives me an s3 url to that media item. If I use an uploaded image as a featured image it works perfectly fine. * However, I also uploaded a pdf and included a link to it in a wysiwyg in one of my sites pages. I see in the edit page that I did indeed paste the s3 url but when I view the page itself the link has been somehow rewritten to point to the wordpress style url [http://www.site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file.pdf](http://www.site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file.pdf). * I know for a fact that its the plugin causing this behavior. If I deactivate the plugin and insert the s3 url into the edit page then the url does NOT get rewritten. * Why is this happening? And how can I turn this off? I have seen similar frustrations on this message board but nobody seems to have a solution and the plugin developers seem to pass the buck and say its not the plugin but it obviously is. * Thanks! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [jonasnic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonasnic/) * (@jonasnic) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rewriting-urls/#post-9662453) * [@ericna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericna/) Did you found a solution yet? * We have the same issue, exactly as you describe. * [dbasantani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbasantani/) * (@dbasantani) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rewriting-urls/#post-9676945) * Hi , * I got the same issue with new aws plugins in our multisite environment. * I have updated both “amazon-s3-and-cloudfront” and “amazon-web-services” * and found the same issue which you guys found but in only one post type related with email in our system. * what i did to fix that is commented one function call in below file : * wp-content/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/classes/as3cf-filter.php * function name : find_urls_and_replace and commented code in this function. :// $value = $this->replace_urls( $value, $url_pairs ); * I still have one issue left with this new plugin when I share post between two stations , image in child station comes busted I am still working on that but you guys can try above thing and do fresh test and see if that works for you guys. * Thanks, Dipak. * [oweux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oweux/) * (@oweux) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rewriting-urls/#post-9838126) * We had a similar situation in which images hosted on third party websites had their urls re-rewritten by this plugin instead of being left alone. I understand this is not your particular issue but you may edit as3cf-filter.php and create your own code to check for your particular condition and override it. Others might find it useful. This page lead me to the correct file to edit. * What we did was add the following: * ``` protected function should_process_host($url_found, $url_wp){ $src_host_names = explode(".", parse_url($url_found, PHP_URL_HOST)); $src_host_names = array_slice($src_host_names, -2); $src_host_names = implode('.', $src_host_names); $wp_host_name = explode(".", parse_url($url_wp, PHP_URL_HOST)); $wp_host_name = array_slice($wp_host_name, -2); $wp_host_name = implode('.', $wp_host_name); if ($src_host_names !== $wp_host_name) { // OR if(strpos($wp_host_name, $src_host_names)) return false; } } ``` * Then add: * ``` if (!$this->should_process_host($url, get_site_url())) { // URL is foreign, skip continue; } ``` * within the “foreach ($matches as $url)” loop in: * get_urls_from_content get_urls_from_img_src * You may want to adjust “-2” on array_splice depending on how ‘deep’ you need to host comparison. * The fix is not ideal because it will get overwritten on each update. * _[Moderator note: code fixed. 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Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Plugin rewriting urls’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1809890) * [WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage](https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/reviews/) ## Tags * [external URL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/external-url/) * 3 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [oweux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oweux/) * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rewriting-urls/#post-9838126) * Status: not resolved