diff --git a/inc/parser/xhtml.php b/inc/parser/xhtml.php
index c92892a355ac8c4db2dc56c11d8142da1dd9615d..9d7613f32cbd7e0565f2e2a1e42e204aa2ab2487 100644
--- a/inc/parser/xhtml.php
+++ b/inc/parser/xhtml.php
@@ -1033,7 +1033,6 @@ class Doku_Renderer_xhtml extends Doku_Renderer {
 
         $link['title'] = $this->_xmlEntities($url);
         $url           = str_replace('\\', '/', $url);
-        $url           = ltrim($url,'/');
         $url           = 'file:///'.$url;
         $link['url']   = $url;