Facebook development in localhost

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Just wanted to know if there is any way I could develop Facebook applications in localhost

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Don t have enough cred to comment on the top voted answer  but at least in my rails environment  running 4   rails s is at  http   localhost 3000  not  http   www localhost 3000  When I changed it to http   localhost 3000  it worked just fine  No need to edit any hosts file

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Try this ---  https   www facebook com help community question  id 589302607826562  1 - Click Apps and then select your app   2 - Click the Settings button on the left side of the screen   3 - In the Basic settings  click the Add Platform button below the  settings configuration   4 - Select Website in the platform dialog   5 - Enter your URL  localhost works here    6 - In the App Domains text input  add your domain that matches the one in the URL   7 - Save your settings

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Latest update  You don t have to give any urls if you are testing it in development  You can leave the fields empty  Make sure your app is in development mode  If not turn off status from live   No need to provide site url  app domains or valid redirect oauth uri

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app domain   localhost  site URL   http   localhost 4440   worked for me with the new UI

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Here is my config and it works fine for PHP API   app domain      http   localhost    Site URL      http   localhost 8082

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NOTE  As of 2012 Facebook allows registration of  localhost  as return Url  You still may need similar workaround for other providers  i e  Microsoft one    If you need real domain name registered with Facebook  like my really own domain com  you can locally redirect requests to this domain to your machine  Easiest out of box approach on any OS is to change  hosts  file to map the domain to 127 0 0 1  see http   technet microsoft com en-us library bb727005 aspx EDAA and https   serverfault com questions 118290 cname-record-alias-in-windows-hosts-file    I usually use Fiddler to do it for me  on Windows with local IIS  - see samples on http   www fiddler2 com Fiddler Dev ScriptSamples asp    if  oSession HostnameIs  my really own domain com         oSession host  localhost 80       Hosts file approach of approaches does not work with Visual Studio Development Server as it requires incoming Urls to be localhost 127 0 0 1  If you need to work with it  or possibly with IIS express  to override host - Using Fiddler with IIS7 Express

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Of course you can  just add the url localhost  without  http    in your app domain and then add in your site url http   localhost  with http   Update  Facebook change the things a little now  just go to the app settings and in the site url just add http    localhost and leave the App Domain empty

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It s easy go to the app dashboard under the facebook login tab click settings then select Enforce HTTPs No  save settings

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Suppose that you have registered your app as   app domain com   You just need to modify the  etc hosts file by adding  127 0 0 1 dev01 app domain com   Then  modify your apache configuration  ServerName dev01 app domain com   and restart apache   You ll need to put your URL in a variable in order to use it as XML parameter on some calls    lt fb login-button registration-url  http    lt    URL  gt  register    gt

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this works June 2018  even after the HTTPS requirement  It appears a test app does not require https   create a test app  https   developers facebook com docs apps test-apps   then within the test app  follow the simple steps in this video  https   www youtube com watch v 7DuRvf7Jtkg

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There is   My solution works when you create an app  but you want to use facebook authentification on your website  This solution below is NOT needed when you want to create an app integrated to FB page   The thing is that you can t put  localhost  as a domain in the facebook configuration page of your app  Security reasons     You need to go to your host file  in OSX   Linux etc hosts and add the following line    127 0 0 1 dev yourdomain com  The domain you put whatever you want  One mistake is to add this line    localhost dev yourdomain com  at least on osx snow leopard in doesnt work    Then you have to clear your dns cache  On OSX   type dscacheutil -flushcache in the terminal  Finally  go back to the online facebook developer website  and in the configuration page of your app  you can add the domain  dev yourdomain com    If you use a program such as Mamp  Easyphp or whatever  make sure the port for Apache is 80    This solution should work for Windows because it also has a hosts file  Nevertheless  as far as I remember Windows 7 doesnt use this file anymore  but this trick should work if you find a way to force windows to use a hosts file

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I think you should be able to develop applications using the visual studio development web server  Start a new FaceBook application on  http   www facebook com developers   Then set the settings for the site Url and the canvas url to the running instance of your website for example http   localhost 1062   Here are a couple of links that should help you out on starting with FaceBook     http   thinkdiff net facebook graph-api-iframe-base-facebook-application-development    http   nagbaba blogspot com 2010 05 experiencing-facebook-javascript-sdk html   http   apps facebook com thinkdiffdemo    Hope this helps

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Edit  2-15-2012 This is how to use FB authentication for a localhost website    I find it more scalable and convenient to set up a second Facebook app   If I m building MyApp  then I ll make a second one called MyApp-dev    Create a new app at https   developers facebook com apps  New 2 15 2012  Click the Website checkbox under  Select how your application integrates with Facebook   In the recent Facebook version you can find this under Settings   Basic   Add Platform - Then select website  Set the Site URL field  NOT the App Domains field  to http   www localhost 3000  this address is for Ruby on Rails  change as needed       In your application initializer  put in code to detect the environment   Sample Rails 3 code       if Rails env     development     Rails env     test    Rails application config middleware use OmniAuth  Builder do     provider  facebook   DEV APP ID    DEV APP SECRET    end else     Production   Rails application config middleware use OmniAuth  Builder do     provider  facebook   PRODUCTION APP ID    PRODUCTION APP SECRET    end end     I prefer this method because once it s set up  coworkers and other machines don t have additional setup

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With the new development center it is now easier    1  Leave app domains blank   2  Click Add Platform 3  Site URL should equal the full path of your local host  4  Save Changes

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The application will run just fine in localhost  3000  you just need to specify the https address on which the application will be live when it be in production mode  Option 2 is provide the url or you heroku website which lets you have sample application in production mode

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My Solution works fine in localhost      For Site URLS use http   localhost  and for App domains use localhost folder name Rest everything is same        it works fine  though its shows redflag in App Domain  App is working fine

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In your app s basic settings  https   developers facebook com apps  under Settings- Basic- Select how your app integrates with Facebook     Use  Site URL   and  Mobile Site URL   to hold your production and development URLs respectively   Both sites will be allowed to authenticate   I m just using Facebook for authentication so I don t need any of the mobile site redirection features   I usually change the  Mobile Site URL   to my  localhost 12345  site while I m testing the authentication  and then set it back to normal when I m done

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You have to choose Facebook product  facebook login  and enable  Client OAuth Login    Web OAuth Login  and  Embedded Browser OAuth Login  then even if you give localhost url It will work

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Facebook no longer allowed a  localhost  callback URL for FBML Facebook applications

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I just discovered a workaround  You can make your local machine accessible by using http   localtunnel com   You ll need to  temporarily  change some URLs used in your app code   html so links point to the temporary domain  but at least facebook can reach your machine

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