Keep Facebookbot away from forum via .htaccess

[xXArmestakkerXx]

Hii Folks,

How can I deny acces to the forum for Facebook bot via .htaccess?
I use Xenforo 2.2.2

Greetings,

xXArmestakkerXx

 

[djbaxter]

I'm not certain what the most recent user-agent is for Facebook but this is the last one I know of...

Option 1 using robots.txt - this should work:

User-agent: facebookexternalhit/1.1
Disallow: /

Option 2 using htaccess - this should work:

#   Block Facebook bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^facebookexternalhit/1\.1  [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

 

[xXArmestakkerXx]

I changed my mind. I thought Fb bot was going to index my entire website to collect data, but that's not the case. It's just that when a link is shared from the forum Fb checks it. If I block that, I hurt my forum a lot while it is not necessary.

check https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler/

I found this while i was cheking the correct recent user agent.

Thanks a lot Baxter!