Debugging django-allauth Social Network Login Failure

Question

When using django-allauth to do an OAuth login via a social provider, sometimes it fails with the error page \"Social Network Login Failure\". There is no log output contai

Answer 1

When I was testing locally, my problem was two fold: First, I had to make sure that I started the server using

python manage.py runserver localhost:8000

Then, in the admin page I had to make sure the Sites table had an entry for localhost:8000, e.g. at

http://localhost:8000/en/admin/sites/site/

The gotcha for me was that I'd had multiple attempts at this and the result was the the ID for my localhost:8000 Sites table entry had become greater than 1. You'll notice in the allauth documentation that is says to to have SITE_ID = 1 in the settings.py but if you inadvertently create a different ID for the entry, you'll have to either alter the database entry's ID or change SITE_ID value.

The other issue I had (unrelated to the poster's issue) was that I also had old registrations url template include interfering with the allauth ones.