Urls rewritten when they contain the project urls' hostname

Urls in the site.xml file are being rewritten if they contain the hostname of the project url. For example:

pom.xml:
<url>http://208.75.85.243</url>

...
<site>
<id>test.site</id>
<url>file:///srv/www/test/site</url>
</site>
...

site.xml:
<item name="About" href="http://208.75.85.243/index.html" />

Results in the following link for the About page which is incorrect and includes the deployment location instead of the url:
http://208.75.85.243/test/site/index.html