title: Facebook Lint/Debugger 403 and 503 Response code. (Wordpress site.)
body: <p>Humbly asking for any assistance people have time to give me on this one. Let me start by saying that I am aware there are previous questions about this on this site and elsewhere on the web; I have read a lot of them, and they are either unanswered/resolved, had a particular cause that doesn't apply to me, or suggests things I have already done. </p>
  
  <p>Over the past few days, Facebook has suddenly stopped scraping my website posts successfully, so when I paste a link into Facebook it pulls nothing through - no thumb or description.  I run the links through the FB lint/debugger, and it alternates between 403 and 503 response codes, but mainly 403. Previous links that Facebook has cached/successfully scraped still display with thumbs and desc, but still present as a 403 or 503 response. </p>
  
  <p>My site is <a href="http://21stcenturyburlesque.com" rel="nofollow">http://21stcenturyburlesque.com</a>
  One of the new URLs I have been testing is : <a href="http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/the-burlesque-top-50-2013/" rel="nofollow">http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/the-burlesque-top-50-2013/</a></p>
  
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  <li><p>I have checked with the server/host people. Nothing has changed, everything fine. </p></li>
  <li><p>I have tried with the default wordpress theme. No change.</p></li>
  <li><p>I have read threads about Bullet Proof Security causing issues, although why it suddenly would I don't know. It was deactivated on my site anyway, but I went through the removal process to remove the htaccess file with the BPS code in it. I have then run debug without an htaccess file present, and with a very basic htaccess present. No change.</p></li>
  <li><p>Hotlinking protection is disabled in my cpanel. </p></li>
  <li><p>I have experimented with adding/removing www. and / when I paste the link into lint as someone suggested. No change. </p></li>
  <li><p>I use Facebook OGP Wordpress plugin. I spoke to the creator and he says the plugin is working as it should and to contact my host/server. See bullet one. </p></li>
  <li><p>I tried creating a new FB App and using the new App Id number with the OGP plugin. No change.</p></li>
  <li><p>Checked the cpanel error log. This came up three times tonight: 
  [Fri Nov 01 21:47:53 2013] [error] [client 193.242.149.35] File does not exist: /home/<em>*</em>*/public_html/403.shtml</p></li>
  <li><p>There are a few other things I ruled out but I've been at this for so long I can't remember all of them, so if someone suggests something else I've tried then I apologise for not mentioning it here in advance.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>If anyone can suggest anything else, I would really appreciate it. I manage to fix most technical problems I come up against, but this has stumped me and my much more experienced colleague and it is really affecting my clickthrough rates and site traffic. If it comes down to adding things to my htaccess file, I would appreciate guidance on what to add/remove. Many thanks in advance.</p>