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Asked by apostolos 5 years ago Last activity 5 years ago

When trying to debug a page where OpenGraph image tag is set, i get the following error in the facebook debugger:

Provided og:image URL, "mysite" could not be processed as an image because it has an invalid content type.

because of this problem the preview of the photo does not appear when I post an article on facebook and twitter

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Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
5 years ago

BTW

If you have hotlink protection enabled, that is likely the issue. Check cPanel setting and disable hotlink protection and see if that fixes the issue.

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Ariba Staff
5 years ago

OpenGraph images should use og:image:url instead of og:image

$this->document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:image" content="'.JURI::root().$og_image.'" />');

Change to: 

$this->document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:image:url" content="'.JURI::root().$og_image.'" />');

Can you kindly check if the solution works?

apostolos Asked this
5 years ago

in which file should I make the change?

Ariba Staff
5 years ago

This is the file location:
/components/com_sppagebuilder/views/page/view.html.php

apostolos Asked this
5 years ago

unfortunately the problem remains

Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
5 years ago

Maybe try different image type, use jpg , not jpeg or other type.

Facebook offcial requirements

  1. The minimum allowed image dimension is 200 x 200 pixels.
  2. The size of the image file must not exceed 8 MB.
  3. Use images that are at least 1200 x 630 pixels for the best display on high resolution devices. At the minimum, you should use images that are 600 x 315 pixels to display link page posts with larger images.

If you have any problems with images not being displayed correctly for a URL, try plugging in the image URL in the Sharing Debugger for any errors >> https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

apostolos Asked this
5 years ago

Thank you all for your advice. The problem is solved. I turned it off hotlink protection and that fixes the issue.

Paul ,
once again your knowledge proved to be excellent

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