Currently i am creating an sample facebook application. The problem is its asking for my application url in two types. Canvas url and Secure canvas url i had hosted my application on this link Fb app url but the hosting is not providing me ssl i.e. the link with https Because of this problem i am unable to include the Secure canvas url
How can i overcome this issue. How can i solve this. Is there any way to submit the facebook application without secure canvas url or is there any free webhosting site which also provides ssl (https). Please suggest me
try heroku . Facebook provides you that option while you are registering your app.
no you have to get the ssl certificate to secure url
check this What is SSL and what are Certificates? and Https connection without SSL certificate
this is Free SSL Certificate :by Comodo for 90 days but never tried by me
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I have encountered the following FB error:
Given URL is not allowed by the application configuration: One or more
of the given URL is not allowed by the App's settings. To use this URL
you must add a valid native platform in your App's settings.
Also Facebook OAuth redirect URI, does not accept http local host.
You may need to review the OAuth settings for your Facebook application
Also Facebook OAuth redirect URI, does not accept http local host
HTTPS is required for new Facebook integrations. You can get free certificates from Lets Encrypt or use self-signed certs and add them to your mobile device. It's a little more complicated, but it's really for the best :-)
I am setting a webhooks for a Facebook application, and they required a call back url, this url must be in https
I do have a server with a call back website but it is not https, it is in http protocol
Any idea to bypass that? (work around? )
There's no way to bypass it.
However, if you don't want to buy SSL certificate for your domain, you can configure your domain name with CloudFlare and use their universal ssl.
I have used it with facebook webhooks and it works very well. It's free and very easy to configure.
The free plan allows you to use Flexible SSL. As per the docs:
Flexible SSL: secure connection between your visitor and CloudFlare, but no secure connection between CloudFlare and your web server. You don't need to have an SSL certificate on your web server, but your visitors still see the site as being HTTPS enabled.
Since recently I can not test applications on localhost. There is no canvas url anymore to be set, only secure canvas url and it asks for https url. Even test apps do not have this option. So I have to buy another ssl and domain for testing pourposes only? If someone has the same problem or a solution please let me know. Cheers!
Just put in https://localhost and accept the unsafe message in the browser, you don´t need to buy a certificate.
You can also use a self-signed certificate, as explained in other threads:
create a trusted self-signed SSL cert for localhost (for use with Express/Node)
How do I allow HTTPS for Apache on localhost?
Thank you luschn for pointing that about self signed stuff out because just putting https://localhost will not work anymore.
It seems that facebook made some changes and that you can only test your apps on localhost if you create a self signed certificate with openssl tool. Then you can enter in secure canvas url something like https://localhost:3000/ and in app domains localhost and it seems to work. Other than creating selfsigned certificate I could not make it work on localhost.
On Monday all of my apps that was being redirected from my secure SSL site to non secure websites was giving a security warning. Is there anyway to redirect from secure websites to non secure ones without a security warning?
Secure Canvas URL is required when Sandbox Mode is disabled after 1st oct 2011.
so you cant redirect https to http beacause its manage by facebook if user enabled secure browsing you need SSL to avoid this warning .
I am working on my first app for Facebook and facing (probably) with the SSL problem. If I am testing the app, so it's working well. But then I wanted to test the app by my friend - so I assigned him the role "Tester", he accepted it and I sent him the link to the app.
If he opened the app, he got the error The website is not available - Error 501 (net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE): Unknown error
I started google it and it looks that the cause is the missing SSL certificate on my hosting, where the app is stored.
BUT - how is possible, that the app is working me well without the SSL and to my friend doesn't? If the SSL is required for Facebook apps, why I didn't get the same error?
(I set Secure Canvas URL: to https://example.com/fb-app-directory/, however I don't have at this domain and hosting any SSL certificate).
I never used before SSL. I bought the domain name on Namecheap and hosting on Hostgator. So now, I should buy a SSL certificate from the offer (http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates.aspx) of Namecheap, right?
Would be suitable for the Facebook app the cheapest one?
Look, this SSL problem can only be solved by purchasing a valid SSL certificate or looking for a server which can host your app and is SSL certified such as:
phpfog.com - Provides you with some limited space and database service.
heroku.com - Does not provide any storage space for saving dynamically generated data. To have that service, you have to buy the Amazon buckets service which, again, is a costly affair.
If you don't want to invest any money, I would recommend that you go with phpfog - it is easy and its documentation is pretty good.
You should buy an SSL cert in order for everyone to be able to access your app. Your friend probably has his settings set so that he browses Facebook securely, in this case he is hitting https://example.com/fb-app-directory/, not your actual URL.
The cheapest one isn't the best one, but it should work as long as it's valid. I would suggest using Heroku though, as that way you get everything you need - for free :)
Use a proxy in heroku.com and bring your page in secure domain as https://yourapplication.herokuapp.com/
"Starting October 1, 2011 Facebook will require a valid SSL Certificate for all pages and applications hosted outside of Facebook."
http://www.wpcode.net/fb-ssl.html/
Maybe you are visiting your application with http://apps.facebook.com/... and your friend is visiting with https://apps.facebook.com/....
Another possibility is that your friend has checked "Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible" under "Account Security".
Try ngrok. It exposes a local web server with just one command:
ngrok 80
After this you can access your localhost like this: xxxxxxxx.ngrok.com