closes #3220

added back base_url

app.js

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ function start() {
 	// Parse out the relative_url and other goodies from the configured URL
 	var urlObject = url.parse(nconf.get('url'));
 	var relativePath = urlObject.pathname !== '/' ? urlObject.pathname : '';
+	nconf.set('base_url', urlObject.protocol + '//' + urlObject.host);
 	nconf.set('use_port', !!urlObject.port);
 	nconf.set('relative_path', relativePath);
 	nconf.set('port', urlObject.port || nconf.get('port') || nconf.get('PORT') || 4567);

src/user/digest.js

@@ -39,14 +39,9 @@ var	async = require('async'),
 
 			// Fix relative paths in topic data
 			data.topics.topics = data.topics.topics.map(function(topicObj) {
-				if (topicObj.hasOwnProperty('teaser') && topicObj.teaser !== undefined) {
-					if (utils.isRelativeUrl(topicObj.teaser.user.picture)) {
-						topicObj.teaser.user.picture = nconf.get('url') + topicObj.teaser.user.picture;
-					}
-				} else {
-					if (utils.isRelativeUrl(topicObj.user.picture)) {
-						topicObj.user.picture = nconf.get('url') + topicObj.user.picture;
-					}
+				var user = topicObj.hasOwnProperty('teaser') && topicObj.teaser !== undefined ? topicObj.teaser.user : topicObj.user;
+				if (user && user.picture && utils.isRelativeUrl(user.picture)) {
+					user.picture = nconf.get('base_url') + user.picture;
 				}
 
 				return topicObj;