diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 2a0c46c234..28bb8c3933 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ sub config_to_int {
 sub config_to_multi {
 	my $val = shift;
 
-	return ref($val) ? $val : [ $val ];
+       return ref($val) ? $val : (defined($val) ? [ $val ] : []);
 }
 
 sub git_get_project_config {
diff --git a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
index 35fff3ddba..796cd7dba0 100755
--- a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
+++ b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
@@ -557,6 +557,31 @@ test_expect_success \
 	'gitweb_run "p=.git;a=tree;opt=--no-merges"'
 test_debug 'cat gitweb.log'
 
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# testing config_to_multi / cloneurl
+
+test_expect_success \
+       'URL: no project URLs, no base URL' \
+       'gitweb_run "p=.git;a=summary"'
+test_debug 'cat gitweb.log'
+
+test_expect_success \
+       'URL: project URLs via gitweb.url' \
+       'git config --add gitweb.url git://example.com/git/trash.git &&
+        git config --add gitweb.url http://example.com/git/trash.git &&
+        gitweb_run "p=.git;a=summary"'
+test_debug 'cat gitweb.log'
+
+cat >.git/cloneurl <<\EOF
+git://example.com/git/trash.git
+http://example.com/git/trash.git
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success \
+       'URL: project URLs via cloneurl file' \
+       'gitweb_run "p=.git;a=summary"'
+test_debug 'cat gitweb.log'
+
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # gitweb config and repo config