facebookexternalhit receiving persistent 403 on custom domain — all other scrapers work

Update for anyone hitting this — GitHub Pages works as a proxy
where Vercel and shared cPanel hosting both fail. Created a simple
HTML page on GitHub Pages with:

  • All OG meta tags pointing to my Promly content
  • og:url set to the real domain (so FB card shows the right hostname label)
  • JS redirect to the real site
  • og:image hosted on GitHub Pages (FB fetches it without issue)

FB Debugger now returns 200 + full preview card. Users see “PROMLY.AI”
on the card thanks to og:url, but the actual scraped URL is a GitHub
Pages address that doesn’t hit Vercel’s edge filter.

Still waiting for proper Vercel-side fix, but this unblocks the launch.