I'm using django-social-auth to do Facebook server-side authentication, and I am getting this error that I've been unable to track down: AuthFailed('There was an error authenticating the app').
I do NOT get this error when I test locally and I have the Facebook app site URL pointing to localhost.
However, I do get this error every time I point the Facebook app site URL to my dev instance -- e.g., https://dev.mydomain.com.
I have not been able to find a list of things that might cause the AuthFailed('There was an error authenticating the app') error.
Also, I have not been able to find others that have used django-social-auth successfully and solved this problem already.
I've found some useful info at the following:
https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth/blob/master/doc/configuration.rst
http://django-social-auth.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/technical-guides/login/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/server-side-login/
Lastly, I want to do server-side authentication because I want to retrieve users' name, email, and photo. However, if that can be done via client-side authentication, I guess I could try that.
Code below...
in settings.py:
LOGIN_URL = '/account/login/'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
LOGIN_ERROR_URL = '/account/login/' # added when trying to debug Facebook error
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'social_auth.backends.facebook.FacebookBackend',
'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)
FACEBOOK_APP_ID = 'xxx'
FACEBOOK_API_SECRET = 'xxxxxx'
FACEBOOK_EXTENDED_PERMISSIONS = ['email']
SOCIAL_AUTH_CREATE_USERS = True
SOCIAL_AUTH_FORCE_RANDOM_USERNAME = False
SOCIAL_AUTH_DEFAULT_USERNAME = 'socialauth_user'
SOCIAL_AUTH_COMPLETE_URL_NAME = 'socialauth_complete'
SOCIAL_AUTH_ERROR_KEY = 'socialauth_error'
SOCIAL_AUTH_REDIRECT_IS_HTTPS = True # force https in dev and production
# is SOCIAL_AUTH_LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL or SOCIAL_AUTH_BACKEND_ERROR_URL needed???
SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE = (
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.social.social_auth_user',
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.associate.associate_by_email',
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.misc.save_status_to_session',
'apps.dsa_pipeline.redirect_to_form',
'apps.dsa_pipeline.username',
'apps.dsa_pipeline.phone',
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.user.create_user',
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.social.associate_user',
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.social.load_extra_data',
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.user.update_user_details',
'apps.dsa_pipeline.profile',
)
in dsa_pipeline.py:
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from urllib2 import urlopen
def redirect_to_form(*args, **kwargs):
if not kwargs['request'].session.get('saved_username') and kwargs.get('user') is None:
return HttpResponseRedirect('/account/signup_dsa/')
def username(request, *args, **kwargs):
if kwargs.get('user'):
username = kwargs['user'].username
else:
username = request.session.get('saved_username')
return {'username': username}
def phone(request, *args, **kwargs):
if kwargs.get('phone'):
phone = kwargs['phone'].phone
else:
phone = request.session.get('saved_phone')
return {'phone': phone}
def profile(backend, details, response, social_user, uid, user, *args, **kwargs):
profile = user.profile
if not profile.phone:
ph = kwargs.get('phone')
if ph:
profile.phone = ph
profile.save()
in urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns("",
url(r"^$", direct_to_template, {"template": "homepage.html"}, name="home"),
url(r"^admin/", include(admin.site.urls)),
# profiles
url(r'^', include("apps.profiles.urls")),
url(r"^account/signup/$", SignupView.as_view(), name="account_signup"),
url(r"^account/signup_dsa/$", SignupViewDSA.as_view(), name="account_signup_dsa"),
url(r"^account/", include("account.urls")),
# Django Social Auth
url(r'', include('social_auth.urls')),
Thanks for any help!
