diff --git a/web/client/components/geostory/contents/WebPageWrapper.jsx b/web/client/components/geostory/contents/WebPageWrapper.jsx
index b692038e90..5c1c600ded 100644
--- a/web/client/components/geostory/contents/WebPageWrapper.jsx
+++ b/web/client/components/geostory/contents/WebPageWrapper.jsx
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
 import WebPage from './WebPage';
 import { compose, withHandlers } from 'recompose';
 import { isValidURL } from '../../../utils/URLUtils';
+import { getConfigProp } from '../../../utils/ConfigUtils';
 
 export class WebPageWrapper extends React.PureComponent {
     static propTypes = {
@@ -81,8 +82,8 @@ export class WebPageWrapper extends React.PureComponent {
 
     save = () => {
         const { url } = this.state;
-        const error = !isValidURL(url);
-        this.setState({ error: !isValidURL(url) });
+        const error = !isValidURL(url, getConfigProp("GeoStoryValidIframeURLRegex"));
+        this.setState({ error });
         if (!error) {
             this.props.onChange(url);
         }
diff --git a/web/client/utils/URLUtils.js b/web/client/utils/URLUtils.js
index 479e84f4bf..3b12ce9bd1 100644
--- a/web/client/utils/URLUtils.js
+++ b/web/client/utils/URLUtils.js
@@ -77,5 +77,6 @@ export const isSameUrl = (u1, u2) => {
  * @param {RegExp} regexp - optional custom regexp
  */
 export const isValidURL = (url, regexp = /^(http(s{0,1}):\/\/)+?[\w.-]+(?:\.[\w\.-]+)+[\w\-\._~:/?#[\]@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=.]+$/) => {
-    return regexp.test(url);
+    const regex = new RegExp(regexp);
+    return regex.test(url);
 };