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Facebook Authentication

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Forem allows you to authenticate using Facebook. In order to use this authentication method in local development, you will need to setup a Facebook App and retrieve its keys. Then you'll need to provide these keys to the Rails application.

Sign up​

  1. Sign in to your Facebook account.

  2. In order to get the API keys, you will have to convert your account to a developer account.

Get API keys​

  1. Sign up or sign in to your Facebook developer account.

  2. From My Apps dashboard, click on Add a New App.

    Add new app

  3. Select For Everything Else.

    Select For Everything Else

  4. Fill in the app display name and contact email, then click on Create App ID.

    Create App Id

  5. On the Add a Product screen, click Set Up under the Facebook Login section.

    Click Set Up on Facebook Login

  6. Ignore the quickstart options, and click Settings -> Basic in the sidebar.

    Click settings/basic

  7. From the basic settings screen dashboard copy the App ID and App Secret values to your .env file accordingly (name of Facebook key -> name of our Settings::General variable).

    APP ID -> FACEBOOK_APP_ID
    API secret -> FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET

    Add app id and app secret

Configure the Facebook App​

  1. From the basic settings screen dashboard set your application's domain name in App Domains field, and be sure to click Save Changes.

    Configure the facebook app

  2. Naviate to Facebook Login --> Settings, and enter the following callback URL in the field Valid OAuth Redirect URIs:

    https://<your domain>>/users/auth/facebook/callback

    Enter valid OAuth redirect URI