diff --git a/src/webui/WebUI.jl b/src/webui/WebUI.jl
index 4fe5dcd875..685d80adba 100644
--- a/src/webui/WebUI.jl
+++ b/src/webui/WebUI.jl
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ function init_registry()
     repo = @gf get_repo(forge, owner, name)
     repo === nothing && error("Registry lookup failed")
 
-    clone = get(CONFIG, "registry_clone_url", url)
-    fork_url = get(CONFIG, "registry_fork_url", clone)
+    clone = remove_ssh_prefix(get(CONFIG, "registry_clone_url", url))
+    fork_url = remove_ssh_prefix(get(CONFIG, "registry_fork_url", clone))
     fork_owner, fork_name = splitrepo(fork_url)
     fork_repo = @gf get_repo(forge, fork_owner, fork_name)
     fork_repo === nothing && error("Registry fork lookup failed")
diff --git a/src/webui/gitutils.jl b/src/webui/gitutils.jl
index fc2fb38750..fd84eb6966 100644
--- a/src/webui/gitutils.jl
+++ b/src/webui/gitutils.jl
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ end
 
 # Split a repo path into its owner and name.
 function splitrepo(url::AbstractString)
-    pieces = split(HTTP.URI(url).path, "/"; keepempty=false)
+    if startswith(url, "https://") || startswith(url, "http://")
+        pieces = split(HTTP.URI(url).path, "/"; keepempty=false)
+    else
+        pieces = split(split(url, ":")[end], "/")
+    end
+
     owner = join(pieces[1:end-1], "/")
     name = pieces[end]
     return owner, name
diff --git a/src/webui/webutils.jl b/src/webui/webutils.jl
index e45beadf9a..80124c464c 100644
--- a/src/webui/webutils.jl
+++ b/src/webui/webutils.jl
@@ -40,3 +40,5 @@ function parseform(s::AbstractString)
     pairs = split(replace(s, "+" => " "), "&")
     return Dict(map(p -> map(strip ∘ HTTP.unescapeuri, split(p, "=")), pairs))
 end
+
+remove_ssh_prefix(s::AbstractString) = startswith(s, "ssh://") ? s[length("ssh://")+1:end] : s