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jpatiaga
jpatiaga

Reputation: 352

Facebook page for an app cannot have the same URL as the app's namespace

I have a Facebook app and I need to create a Facebook page for it. The app namespace is, for example, my-namespace123, so the app URL would be http://apps.facebook.com/my-namespace123

The problem is that when I create a Facebook page for it, I can't enter http://www.facebook.com/my-namespace123 as the URL and I get the error message: "Web address is not available. Please try another one."

I checked and there appears to be a page with that URL. What is happening? Is it that hyphens are not allowed in the URL? Is there some way of creating a page with that URL? Please help! Thanks =)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3117

Answers (2)

Jaibuu
Jaibuu

Reputation: 578

you don't need to add dashes in http://www.facebook.com/my-namespace123

if your URL is http://www.facebook.com/mynamespace123, you will be able to access it through http://www.facebook.com/my-namespace123

e.g. http://www.facebook.com/A-p-p-S-t-o-r-e

Upvotes: 4

Igy
Igy

Reputation: 43816

Hyphens aren't supported in usernames for users or pages according to Facebook's help center: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=105399436216001

Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (".").

Upvotes: 2

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