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How to login using facebook in development environment using django social-auth?

I'm using social-auth with my django web app. When I go to /login/facebook in the production environment, the user is able to login using their facebook data. However in my development environment when I access 

http://localhost:8000/login/facebook/,

I get an error saying 

An error occurred. Please try again later.

API Error Code: 191
API Error Description: The specified URL is not owned by the application
Error Message: Invalid redirect_uri: Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.

I believe this is because the domain is localhost:8000. How do I fix this so I can login using facebook in my development environment?

Solution

  • I had just seen an answer for it while reading the Heroku/Facebook documentation.

    To do that, you must create a second app and link it to your localhost in order to test it locally.

    You can find more info about it here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/facebook#1-creating-a-development-facebook-app