diff --git a/lisp/ox-html.el b/lisp/ox-html.el
index 543c7eac4..64fec544a 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-html.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-html.el
@@ -3227,7 +3227,7 @@ INFO is a plist holding contextual information. See
(org-trim (plist-get info :html-link-home)))))
(when (and home
(plist-get info :html-link-use-abs-url)
- (file-name-absolute-p raw-path))
+ (not (file-name-absolute-p raw-path)))
(setq raw-path (concat (file-name-as-directory home) raw-path))))
;; Maybe turn ".org" into ".html".
(setq raw-path (funcall link-org-files-as-html-maybe raw-path info))