diff --git a/pillar/application/modules/projects.py b/pillar/application/modules/projects.py
index fdc75679..4b3cb2ec 100644
--- a/pillar/application/modules/projects.py
+++ b/pillar/application/modules/projects.py
@@ -98,11 +98,13 @@ def protect_sensitive_fields(document, original):
             return
         document[name] = original[name]
 
-    revert('url')
     revert('status')
     revert('category')
     revert('user')
 
+    if 'url' in original:
+        revert('url')
+
 
 def after_inserting_projects(projects):
     """After inserting a project in the collection we do some processing such as:
diff --git a/tests/test_bcloud_home_project.py b/tests/test_bcloud_home_project.py
index 7bc4d9ee..4b8607f3 100644
--- a/tests/test_bcloud_home_project.py
+++ b/tests/test_bcloud_home_project.py
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ class HomeProjectTest(AbstractPillarTest):
 
         json_proj = json.loads(resp.data)
         self.assertEqual('home', json_proj['category'])
+        self.assertEqual('home', json_proj['url'])
 
         # Check that a Blender Sync node was created automatically.
         with self.app.test_request_context(headers={'Authorization': self.make_header('token')}):
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ class HomeProjectTest(AbstractPillarTest):
 
         json_proj = json.loads(resp.data)
         self.assertEqual('home', json_proj['category'])
+        self.assertEqual('home', json_proj['url'])
 
         # Check that a Blender Sync node was created automatically.
         with self.app.test_request_context(headers={'Authorization': self.make_header('token')}):
@@ -153,6 +155,7 @@ class HomeProjectTest(AbstractPillarTest):
         self.assertEqual(200, resp.status_code)
         json_proj = json.loads(resp.data)
         self.assertEqual('home', json_proj['category'])
+        self.assertEqual('home', json_proj['url'])
 
         # Check that the admin group of the project only has GET permissions.
         self.assertEqual({'GET'}, set(json_proj['permissions']['groups'][0]['methods']))