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Fraser
Fraser

Reputation: 14246

Testing facebook connect on localhost

I'm trying to test a facebook connect on my localhost. In the app settings in the facebook developer page I tried changing "Website with facebook login" to http://localsitename:8888 but I am given an error:

Error
Site URL must be a URL with a valid domain.

I have read where others have managed to do this successfully. Has anyone found a work around for this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2128

Answers (2)

Technotronic
Technotronic

Reputation: 8943

CBroe's answer worked well!

If you are working with xampp, you can edit \xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf and add another virtual host. also edit \windows\system32\driver\etc\hosts file and add a reference to the new host.

hosts: added

technotronic.fb 127.0.0.1

httpd-vhosts.conf: added

<VirtualHost *>
        DocumentRoot "E:/xampp/htdocs/technotronic"
        ServerName technotronic.fb
        <Directory "E:/xampp/htdocs/technotronic">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>

This fixed the problem for me.

Upvotes: 0

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96383

Looks like Facebook accepts only localhost as a domain name without any dots in it.

Make your local site’s name something with a dot in it, then it should work fine – localsite.name, mytestsite.local or even foo.bar …

Upvotes: 3

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