FB does not recognize links

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GK User
Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:11 pm
Hello,
my site is http://www.vino.rs and when I try to post an article on Facebook, by using AddThis plugin I get the 403: Access Forbidden message. Also, I am not able to post it directly onto Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Vino.rs.magazine), by pasting a link.
Posting works just fine when I try to paste a link from any other website into the Facebook status field.

I contack my host and they found that the issue is caused due to the following default Joomla directives in my .htaccess file:
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

Also they recommend me to contacting a professional Joomla developer who is more familiar with Joomla's inner functionality and can better assist me with resolving the case. And I just to it.

Thank you in advance
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GK User
Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:38 pm
From what I see this code isn't standard Joomla htaccess code. Perhaps some 3rd party extension added it.
To be honest - only php/admin specialist who knows htaccess rewrites might help you understand what it does.
You could simply remove these declarations from htaccess and check if posting on facebook will work fine again.
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GK User
Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:48 pm
Cyberek, thanks for the advice. I tried and, unfortunately, this does not solve the problem.

If you have any other ideas, I would be grateful.
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Fresh Boarder

GK User
Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:23 am
I have just pasted:
http://www.vino.rs
to my fb account and it worked fine.
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