As usual Facebook keep changing, improving and driving nuts many developers and users.
How to have however a new tab into your page on Facebook and in personal profile
1. Go to your https://developers.facebook.com/apps (if you have not account there just create one, it is fast and free – follow the instructions)
2. Create an app , take care , name of the app is very relevant, for example is your new tab will be a contact form the name it Contact. It is not just about name of tab, it can be changed but it is about page title when user will click on the icon of your app. The icon can be setup later. Let’s have the tab working.
See image below as sample and fill in with your details
You can setup and use the application (tab) but you must have SSL installed on your website!
- If your page (tab) will be browsed by a user who is not log into facebook then the facebook url is http://facebook.com/YOUR_FACEBOOK_PAGE. All good and your tab will be displayed okay.
- If your page (tab) will be browsed by a user who is log into facebook then the facebook url is https://facebook.com/YOUR_FACEBOOK_PAGE. Your page (TAB) will try to load your content on https:// and if you have not SSL installed then an error will be displayed.
As far as I see if you are developer of the app and you try to see your result (tab content) you will get error generated by the missing SSL. If you open a new browser and access the same tab (login in facebook or not) there will be no error.
Save and wait a few minutes/hours or no need to wait. Why? Because it depends of Facebook “mood”. Try next steps once you finish this one. If it works means you are luck, does not work yet: check all above and it means “bad luck”. Keep trying, never give up.
3. make sure you have your in your website setup the path specified above, I mean: http://www.sydneywebs.com.au/facebook/about/ folder and that a file named index.php or index.html does exist into that folder
What will be in that page (index.php) will be displayed into your new tab on facebook
4. When you consider, login in Facebook, into that account that is admin for the page in which you wish to add the tab and write in browser :
- To display tab in your page (personal): call in a browser: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_CANVAS_PAGE
- To display tab in business page: call in a browser: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_CANVAS_PAGE
For page, you will be asked to chose the page where you wish to be displayed this tab. To that page into applications area will be added your app.
More tabs you need then more apps you need to setup. One tab you wish to have = one apps like this you will add.
