"View Trip" button in travel receipt goes to wrong url

[blimpich]

Problem

Coming from this issue. When a user books a trip with us we automatically issue a generated receipt. That receipt has a button on it and it is hyperlinked, but it goes to the wrong url.

Steps to Repro on Dev

1. create an account
2. follow this SO to create a travel policy and test trip locally
3. go to that test trip and click on the expense with an attached receipt
4. click on the receipt
5. click on the button in the top right corner that says "view trip"

Expected Behavior

On dev or staging it should go to https://staging.travel.expensify.com/trips/$tripID

And on prod it should go to https://travel.expensify.com/trips/$tripID

Actual behavior

Goes to $base_url/trips/$tripID where base url is either https://dev.new.expensify.com:8082, https://staging.new.expensify.com, or https://new.expensify.com.

Screen capture

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @c3024

[c3024]

@blimpich

I think the link should be https://staging.travel.expensify.com.dev/trips/$tripID instead of https://staging.travel.expensify.com/trips/$tripID on dev because our links are configured to use the cookie domains.

https://github.com/Expensify/Web-Expensify/blob/eb2d8f89c976032c99a1887597e19e4509a54ea7/www-dev-config.php#L171-L175

[blimpich]

https://staging.travel.expensify.com.dev isn't a valid site though. If you go to it you get a This site can’t be reached. Travel doesn't really work from dev unfortunately, so it doesn't really matter, but when we make trips via script in the backend I believe it goes to our sandbox environment, which is on staging.travel.expensify.com

[c3024]

Week update: https://github.com/Expensify/Web-Expensify/pull/49672 deployed to staging.

[c3024]

Can we close this? We have a separate App issue for handling the navigation of travel links in the web view on the frontend.

[blimpich]

yup!