Question

We followed the Facebook example code, shown here — this works in our app — if you click the anchor ‘a’ link, its onclick handler opens a new window and the facebook feed dialog appears:

      <a class="fbShareToWall" onClick='window.open("https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=123050457758177
       &link=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/
       &picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg
       &name=Facebook%20Dialogs&caption=Reference%20Documentation
       &description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.
       &redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/response");'>Share on Facebook</a>

The above code works fine and displays the Facebook sample of the Feed dialog.

Here is our code – we get the error message:

“An error occurred with oursite.com. Please try again later.
API Error Code: 191
API Error Description: The specified URL is not owned by the application
Error Message: redirect_uri is not owned by the application.

NOTE: this is a beta site and we’re running it on a staging server whose domain name is NOT the same as the domain name that “OUR_APP_ID” below is associated with:

            <a class="fbShareToWall" onClick='window.open("https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id="OUR_APP_ID"
             &link=https://www.oursite.com&name=Please%20work
             &caption=Just%20work
             &description=Comeon%20work
             &redirect_uri=http://www.oursite.com");'>Share on Facebook</a>

(note: our code has the numerical FB app_id, not “OUR_APP_ID”)

“OUR_APP_ID” is ‘connected’ to our production server’s domain name and we’re kinda wondering if that’s the problem.

EDIT: “we’re kinda wondering if that’s the problem” because the code above is on our staging website http://www.foo.com —
and our code above uses an app_Id that we connected to our production domain name ‘www.oursite.com’.

We wonder if Facebook — upon receiving the above request to display the Feed dialog — is saying to itself

“okay this website http://www.foo.com is trying to display a Feed dialog — but the app_id is for http://www.oursite.com —
so we’re going to pop up a 191 error”

We tested that theory. We altered the sample FB feed dialog code at the top — we changed some numbers in the sample code’s app id.

And we get an error message now with the formerly working sample Feed dialog code but it is a completely different error message.

Any advice on this ‘191’ redirect_uri error message?

Answer 1

the url format works fine with my app

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=135669679827333&link=https://anotherfeed.com&name=testing&caption=Just%20testing&description=the%20test&redirect_uri=http://anotherfeed.com

check to make sure your app id is correct and that your redirecting to the domain that is set up in your app settings.