Wave - Social Authentication - how to make it work?

It looks like adding domain.tld/auth/facebook/callback as Valid OAuth Redirect URI made it work. Well, kind of.

That's because, regardless whether I'm trying to register (at domain.tld/auth/register), or log in (at domain.tld/auth/login), after clicking the "Continue with Facebook" button, and reaching the Continue as [facebooK_user] screen, and authorizing the authentication on the Facebook side, I'm getting returned to the login URL at domain.tld/auth/login with the #_=_ parameters appended to the end of the URL.

Also, the "An error occurred during authentication. Please try again." message is shown above the email input field.

Hey!

Happy to hear that you've got it working so far!

I just tested this and the following worked for me without any warnings:

Make sure that you also have the correct APP_URL setup in your .env file, it needs to exactly match your domain name including the https:// part.

Let me know how it goes!

- Bobby

Hey Bobby,

Thank you for your reply! My Facebook App setup is exactly like yours now (obviously with the exception of the domain name), and I made sure that the value of the APP_URL entry in my .env file matches exactly the domain name, including the https:// part. But, alas, I'm still getting the same "An error occurred during authentication. Please try again." message, and I'm getting returned to the login screen. That is, even if I tried to sign up, even though it happens exactly the same when I'm trying to sign in.

The most puzzling part to me is that, for some reason, the #_=_ string gets appended to the end of the login URI, like so:

https://domain.tld/auth/login#_=_

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

The issue seems to occur during the social provider user creation, i.e. within the private method createSocialProviderUser() method of the SocialController.php Controller provided by the devdojo/auth package.

In a nutshell, when creating a new user with the help of the OAuth protocol, via the Facebook social provider, the method is successfully receiving the expected user data from Facebook (as arguments), but it fails when trying to persist the user to the database during the $user->socialProviders()->create() call.

I provided more details about this on GitHub.

Hey!

This is very helpful! Thank you for the additional information!

Do you by any chance also get any errors in the Laravel log at storage/logs/laravel.log?

In there you might have the exact error that is preventing the user from being created. If you could share that here it will be very helpful!

I will also try to reproduce this on my end in the meantime and keep the GitHub thread updated!

- Bobby

Hey Bobby!

I just cleared the log file and tried to authenticate with Facebook, (of course without success), but my log file is still empty.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Hey 👋

I've just updated the GitHub thread yesterday, I tried to look into this further and reproduce it locally on my end but it all seems to be working as expected.

A couple of things that come to my mind:

• Regarding the empty log, can you confirm if you have APP_DEBUG=true set in your .env file? If not, can you set it and give it another try?
• What type of database are you using, is it SQLite or MySQL for example?
• Also in your browser web console, do you see any errors? You can try to: open the browser web console, then click on the register button and go through the flow and keep an eye on the console for any errors.

Hey Bobby,

Thank you for your efforts! I've decided to set up a new Wave project from scratch and give the social login a go without modifying anyhitng else. I will let you know ASAP how it goes.

Many thanks!

Hey!

This is a good idea! Let me know how it goes 🤞