Facebook Preview Not Working on Posts

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    (@hiskingdomprophecy)


    3 weeks, 6 days ago

    Hi Folks,
    Facebook will provide a correct preview for the home page : https://www.hiskingdomprophecy.com/ but not for any post.
    This problem started early last week and I have cleaned out my robots.txt file and .htaccess and tested on Meta Sharing Debugger.
    However nothing seems to change the results as ALL new posts are somehow blocked from showing a full preview.
    The Debugger is pretty useless on help and AI only gives the above items.
    What puzzles me is why the home page works correctly, but not any post…
    And yes I have checked and the OG: data on the new posts and the home page is al there and intact.
    Something is stopping it being accessed and all posts now give a 403 code on Debugger, but can find no reason for the 403.
    Any suggestions as to where to look for a solution?
    Regards and thanks,
    Angus

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    (@hiskingdomprophecy)

    3 weeks, 6 days ago

    Problem solved!!.

    After checking the server to ensure there were no issues to fix, I decided to rename the “.htaccess” file to “zzz.htaccess” and left it for 5 minutes with the site not working, as no links operational.

    I then renamed the same file back to “.htaccess” and lo and behold, the Meta Sharing Debugger was able to find all the OG: data and the posts started to show the full previews, but still showing a 403 code.

    After about 5 minutes, the Debugger then started to show all posts with a 200 code.

    I have since tried to post on Facebook again and it all works as it did before.

    Not sure why the deleted “.htaccess” data was still in our server, but it is gone now and normality has been restored on the website.

    Regards to all!
    Angus

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