Facebook App: localhost no longer works as app domain

Question

I\'ve been writing a game for Facebook using Rails and jQuery. Since I started using the Facebook Javascript SDK, using localhost as an app domain seemed to work just fine.

Answer 1

I ran into an issue with my Rails app that I usually run with http://localhost:3000 because Facebook now requires the Valid OAuth redirect to use https.

To use https locally, I used [ngrok][1] which allows you to use https by providing a tunnel. To do this:

1. I went to their website and downloaded their program
2. I extracted the file for the program
3. In my console, I went into the directory where ngrok was extracted to and entered 'grok http 3000' on my Windows machine, others may use './grok http 3000'
4. After entering that, ngrok provided a https address which I put into the Valid OAuth Redirect URIs field in Facebook
5. Then I started my server and was able to access it using that https address instead of localhost:3000