diff --git a/inc/config.php b/inc/config.php
index 5ebf10c9..36394463 100644
--- a/inc/config.php
+++ b/inc/config.php
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@
 	// Whether to turn URLs into functional links
 	$config['markup_urls']	= true;
 	// Complex regular expression to catch URLs
-	$config['url_regex']	= '/' . '(https?|ftp):\/\/' . '(([\w\-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}|\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})' . '(:\d+)?' . '(\/([\w\-~.#\/?=&;:+%!*\[\]@$\'()+,]+)?)?' . '/';
+	$config['url_regex']	= '/' . '(https?|ftp):\/\/' . '(([\w\-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}|\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})' . '(:\d+)?' . '(\/([\w\-~.#\/?=&;:+%!*\[\]@$\'()+,|]+)?)?' . '/';
 	// INSANE regular expression for IPv6 addresses
 	$config['ipv6_regex']	= '((([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){6}(:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3})|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){5}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2})|:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3})|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){4}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3}))|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){3}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,2}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3}))|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){2}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,3}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3}))|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,4}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3}))|:))|(:(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,5}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]?\d)){3}))|:)))(%.+)?';
 	// Make IPv4 addresses look like IPv4 addresses ("::ffff:8.8.8.8" becomes "8.8.8.8")