Facebook returning invalid URL

[Kami]

URL: theavatarrp.com

I'm trying to set up our facebook page and FB is marking our URL with the following errors:

• URL returned a bad HTTP response code.
• The following required properties are missing: fb:app_id

We've had this URL for a few years now, though our PB connection expired for a little while. It's been back for several days now and I manually had FB rescrape and it's still returning this error. Some advice would be lovely, as since FB considers this an invalid URL visitors to the page do not see our URL to direct to our forum.

Thanks!

[Nscalerr 🐺]

Hi Kami

A slightly out there idea, but I am wondering if the 'maintenance mode' would be affecting things and Facebook may be thinking it is invalid as they can't see the actual site.

[Kami]

I thought of that too; its entirely possible, and that's what I would have assumed, but the error messages are what's throwing me off. I don't know how MM would throw out a bad http response code 🤔 Maybe it doesn't mean what I think it means...

[Nscalerr 🐺]

I scraped your forum as well, along with mine for comparison and saw the error message. Must admit I didn't have mine in MM. Mine had the secondary error msg, (
fb:app_id) though, think something for the Reds to look in to.

[Scott]

Kami, sorry I'm not familiar enough with this issue and FB to offer assistance today. Unless another member has an idea it will have to wait until tomorrow when other PB staff are available.

[Kami]

Nscalerr 🐺 - thanks for checking!
Scott - absolutely no rush!

[Derek‽]

fb:app_id is just an Open Graph meta tag property. It isn’t necessary unless you want to associate the page with a certain analytical grouping or include interactive FB elements on the page (liking, comments, etc.), but no PB forum includes it.

The “bad HTTP response code” is because the forum is in maintenance mode. The site is technically temporarily unavailable, so the server is sending a 503 status code to the client. Facebook isn’t going to scrape a site if it doesn’t think whatever data is sent with the 503 error is the page content a user intended to share.

[Kami]

May 25, 2020 17:58:10 GMT -8 Derek‽ said:

fb:app_id is just an Open Graph meta tag property. It isn’t necessary unless you want to associate the page with a certain analytical grouping or include interactive FB elements on the page (liking, comments, etc.), but no PB forum includes it.

The “bad HTTP response code” is because the forum is in maintenance mode. The site is technically temporarily unavailable, so the server is sending a 503 status code to the client. Facebook isn’t going to scrape a site if it doesn’t think whatever data is sent with the 503 error is the page content a user intended to share.

Thanks bb <3

I'll check it again once we reopen. Much appreciated!

[Nscalerr 🐺]

So my slightly out there idea wasn't to far off the mark, that it was the MM. One to remember, thanks Derek‽