diff --git a/.github/workflows/.lychee.excludes b/.github/workflows/.lychee.excludes
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..17f464dfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/.lychee.excludes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+file:///github/workspace/*
diff --git a/.github/workflows/links.yml b/.github/workflows/links.yml
index 70749934e..9d1b9b69b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/links.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/links.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ jobs:
         id: lychee
         uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v1.5.0
         with:
-          args: --accept=200,403,429  "**/*.html" "**/*.md" "**/*.txt" "**/*.json" --exclude "file:///github/workspace/*" --exclude-mail
+          args: --accept=200,403,429 "**/*.html" "**/*.md" "**/*.txt" "**/*.json" --exclude-file ".github/workflows/.lychee.excludes" --exclude-mail 
           fail: true
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+      
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9644873d4..cf36df04c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 ### Fixed
 - Fixed DeprecationWarning emitted from urllib3 1.26.13+ ([#246](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/246))
 - Fixed Wrong return type hint in `async_scan` ([520](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/520))
+- Fixed link checker failing due to relative link ([#760](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/760))
 ### Security
 
 [Unreleased]: https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/compare/v2.6.0...HEAD
diff --git a/docs/source/README.md b/docs/source/README.md
deleted file mode 120000
index fe8400541..000000000
--- a/docs/source/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/source/index.md b/docs/source/index.md
index 513d4ab4c..bcadd50fe 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.md
+++ b/docs/source/index.md
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ Developer Guide <https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/blob/main/D
 GitHub Repository <https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py>
 ```
 
-```{include} README.md
+```{include} ../../README.md
 
 ```