diff --git a/hugolib/page__meta.go b/hugolib/page__meta.go
index eefecbe4a..8e61ce138 100644
--- a/hugolib/page__meta.go
+++ b/hugolib/page__meta.go
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/hugo"
+
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/related"
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/source"
@@ -374,11 +376,22 @@ func (pm *pageMeta) setMetadata(p *pageState, frontmatter map[string]interface{}
 			pm.urlPaths.Slug = strings.Trim(cast.ToString(v), "-")
 			pm.params[loki] = pm.Slug()
 		case "url":
-			if url := cast.ToString(v); strings.HasPrefix(url, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(url, "https://") {
-				return fmt.Errorf("only relative URLs are supported, %v provided", url)
+			url := cast.ToString(v)
+			if strings.HasPrefix(url, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(url, "https://") {
+				return fmt.Errorf("URLs with protocol (http*) not supported: %q. In page %q", url, p.pathOrTitle())
 			}
-			pm.urlPaths.URL = cast.ToString(v)
-			pm.params[loki] = pm.urlPaths.URL
+			lang := p.s.GetLanguagePrefix()
+			if lang != "" && !strings.HasPrefix(url, "/") && strings.HasPrefix(url, lang) {
+				if strings.HasPrefix(hugo.CurrentVersion.String(), "0.55") {
+					// We added support for page relative URLs in Hugo 0.55 and
+					// this may get its language path added twice.
+					// TODO(bep) eventually remove this.
+					p.s.Log.WARN.Printf(`Front matter in %q with the url %q with no leading / has what looks like the language prefix added. In Hugo 0.55 we added support for page relative URLs in front matter, no language prefix needed. Check the URL and consider to either add a leading / or remove the language prefix.`, p.pathOrTitle(), url)
+
+				}
+			}
+			pm.urlPaths.URL = url
+			pm.params[loki] = url
 		case "type":
 			pm.contentType = cast.ToString(v)
 			pm.params[loki] = pm.contentType
diff --git a/hugolib/page_permalink_test.go b/hugolib/page_permalink_test.go
index 9df10cd53..526f9578b 100644
--- a/hugolib/page_permalink_test.go
+++ b/hugolib/page_permalink_test.go
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Content
 func TestRelativeURLInFrontMatter(t *testing.T) {
 
 	config := `
-
+baseURL = "https://example.com"
 defaultContentLanguage = "en"
 defaultContentLanguageInSubdir = false
 
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ Some content.
 
 	b := newTestSitesBuilder(t).WithConfigFile("toml", config)
 	b.WithContent("content/en/blog/page1.md", fmt.Sprintf(pageTempl, "myblog/p1/"))
+	b.WithContent("content/en/blog/page2.md", fmt.Sprintf(pageTempl, "../../../../../myblog/p2/"))
+	b.WithContent("content/en/blog/page3.md", fmt.Sprintf(pageTempl, "../myblog/../myblog/p3/"))
 	b.WithContent("content/en/blog/_index.md", fmt.Sprintf(pageTempl, "this-is-my-english-blog"))
 	b.WithContent("content/nn/blog/page1.md", fmt.Sprintf(pageTempl, "myblog/p1/"))
 	b.WithContent("content/nn/blog/_index.md", fmt.Sprintf(pageTempl, "this-is-my-blog"))
@@ -139,8 +141,10 @@ Some content.
 	b.Build(BuildCfg{})
 
 	b.AssertFileContent("public/nn/myblog/p1/index.html", "Single: A page|Hello|nn|RelPermalink: /nn/myblog/p1/|")
-	b.AssertFileContent("public/nn/this-is-my-blog/index.html", "List Page 1|A page|Hello|/nn/this-is-my-blog/|")
-	b.AssertFileContent("public/this-is-my-english-blog/index.html", "List Page 1|A page|Hello|/this-is-my-english-blog/|")
-	b.AssertFileContent("public/myblog/p1/index.html", "Single: A page|Hello|en|RelPermalink: /myblog/p1/|Permalink: /myblog/p1/|")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/nn/this-is-my-blog/index.html", "List Page 1|A page|Hello|https://example.com/nn/this-is-my-blog/|")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/this-is-my-english-blog/index.html", "List Page 1|A page|Hello|https://example.com/this-is-my-english-blog/|")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/myblog/p1/index.html", "Single: A page|Hello|en|RelPermalink: /myblog/p1/|Permalink: https://example.com/myblog/p1/|")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/myblog/p2/index.html", "Single: A page|Hello|en|RelPermalink: /myblog/p2/|Permalink: https://example.com/myblog/p2/|")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/myblog/p3/index.html", "Single: A page|Hello|en|RelPermalink: /myblog/p3/|Permalink: https://example.com/myblog/p3/|")
 
 }