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Sample .htaccess file that will allow Facebook and Pinterest to bypass authorization so you can keep your site private to the public yet properly test social sharing
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htaccess_with_social_pass_through
# look for Facebot/facebookexternalhit (1.0/1.1)
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*faceb.* noauth=1
# look for Pinterest (0.1/0.2)
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*pinterest.* noauth=1
# auth
AuthType Basic
AuthName "PRIVATE"
AuthUserFile /var/www/path-to-your-virtual-host/.htpasswd
Order Deny,Allow
Satisfy any
Deny from all
Require valid-user
Allow from env=noauth
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Gugiman commented Feb 28, 2020

Thanks bro :)

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