diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
index 1102fa52a..3a4cfd5e7 100644
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -1931,7 +1931,7 @@ sub misctemplate ($$;@) {
 		title => $title,
 		wikiname => $config{wikiname},
 		content => $content,
-		baseurl => baseurl(),
+		baseurl => $config{url},
 		html5 => $config{html5},
 		%params,
 	);
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f9468f1c7..33e5e1fa1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ ikiwiki (3.20101232) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Fix base url when previewing. Was broken by base changes in last release.
   * Fix redirect to use a full url. Was broken (in theory) by baseurl
     changes in last release.
+  * Temporarily revert one part of the multiple url support in the last
+    release. Non-edit pages are now back to having `<base>` set to
+    the site's main url.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:00:55 -0400
 
diff --git a/doc/todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both.mdwn b/doc/todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both.mdwn
index 55ff67d0c..260aecdbd 100644
--- a/doc/todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both.mdwn
@@ -4,17 +4,16 @@
 
 * CGI pages, with the exception of edit pages, set `<base>` to
   `$config{url}`
-* When doing a Logout or Cancel, or when saving an edited page,
-  the user is returned to something derived from `$config{url}`.
-* RecentChanges page may link to things derived from `$config{url}`.
 
-All of the above are because I had to revert `baseurl(undef)` to always
-returning an absolute url, since relative urls caused breakage as seen in
-[[preview_base_url_should_be_absolute]]. --[[Joey]] 
+I had to revert using `baseurl(undef)` for that, because it needs
+to be a full url.
 
 Ideally, baseurl would return an absolute url derived from the url
 being used to access the cgi, but that needs access to the CGI object,
-which it does not have. --[[Joey]] 
+which it does not currently have. Similarly, `misctemplate`
+does not have access to the CGI object, so it cannot use it to
+generate a better baseurl. Not sure yet what to do; may have to thread
+a cgi parameter through all the calls to misctemplate. --[[Joey]]
 
 ## old attempt