# Kibana - URL format bug - file://

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-url-format-bug-file/121414>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 25, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-url-format-bug-file/121414 "2018-02-25T23:10:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![eslogger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@eslogger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eslogger)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-url-format-bug-file/121414/1 "2018-02-25T23:10:12Z")

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We recently upgraded to the latest version and now url format no longer works correctly for file:// URI's .  
For example, the value of the field is file://server/share/directory/filename.txt . When formatted as url, kibana is linking to http://[KibanaServer]:5601/app/file://server/share/directory/file.txt .

Tests with http seem to work correctly. But any test with file:// does not.

This worked correctly in the previous version we were on (5.x) .

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**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-url-format-bug-file/121414/2 "2018-02-27T19:54:46Z")

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Hi @eslogger,

Unfortunately, we do not support linking to urls that contain `file://`. The url must either be absolute using `http` or `https` or it must be relative to kibana root.

If you think this should change, feel free to open an issue in [Kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues).

Thanks.  
Chris

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**Author:** ![eslogger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@eslogger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eslogger)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-url-format-bug-file/121414/3 "2018-03-01T14:21:24Z")

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It worked in 5.x . Ideally the url format option should support any valid URI per the RFC. I'll post the request to github. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-url-format-bug-file/121414/4 "2018-03-29T14:21:33Z")

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