​domain_renewal_url merge field wrong value

[steph.hope]

In the Upcoming Domain Renewal Notice email, there's a link for the client to renew the domain:

Quote

To renew your domain, <a href="{$domain_renewal_url}">click here</a>

It seems that the value of the {$domain_renewal_url} merge field sometimes isn't correct though. In an email which was generated by the cron the link destination is https://(mydomain)/whmcs/www/html/whmcs/index.php?rp=/domain/(domain)/renew rather than https://(mydomain)/whmcs/index.php?rp=/domain/(domain)/renew as it should be. I subsequently tried sending the email by using the Send Message button on the Domains tab, and this email had the correct link URL. 

I forced the DomainRenewalNotices cron task to run and the resulting email had the wrong URL again.

I can see that a similar thing has happened to others in the past:

https://whmcs.community/topic/293317-domain-renewal-url-incorrect/
In this case it was a friendly URL issue but we have those turned off (set to Basic URLs)

https://whmcs.community/topic/289121-domain-renewal-url-formatting-link-incorrectly/
According to this it was apparently fixed as #CORE-12253 in v7.6.0 https://docs.whmcs.com/Changelog:WHMCS_V7.6

Any ideas on what could be still causing this to happen when the emails are generated by cron but not when manually requested?

 

[steph.hope]

Bumping this before I give in and edit the email template.

[vmavids]

I am getting the same issue - is there a resolution yet?

[steph.hope]

I got around it by changing the link in the email template to

<a href="{$whmcs_url}index.php?rp=/domain/{$domain_name}/renew">