Google OAuth2 not working on local development server - PHP Codeigniter spark

Question

I am trying to use the Codeigniter spark ( http://getsparks.org/packages/oauth2/versions/HEAD/show) to allow users to login to my php site with fb and google.

My local dev site (on wampserver) is called mysite.dev, for which I have a etc/hosts file like :

127.0.0.1       mysite.dev

Facebook login works absolutely fine. But when I try logging with google, google complains : Invalid parameter value for redirect_uri: Non-public domains not allowed: http://mysite.dev/index.php/oauth2/session/google where oauth2 is my controller and session is the function where I specify fb/google, etc

any clues/hints?

Answer 1

I got around this by adding a hosts file record for the domain with the dev part at the front rather than the end (which I usually do too):

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com

/etc/apache vhost

ServerName mydomain.com.localhost
ServerAlias localhost.mydomain.com

Then tell google to use:

http://localhost.mydomain.com/index.php/oauth2/session/google

Answer 2

When you create client ID for web applications in Google APIs Console you can add allowed Redirect URIs. It accepts localhost urls and others as well.

Answer 3

Google API Console does not allow 'mysite.dev'.