Social Auth Facebook 2.x - Installation Instructions

Social Auth Facebook module depends on The League OAuth2 Facebook library and uses Composer to download it. Composer can automatically download the correct version of the library for you.

Overview of installation steps

1. Step 1: Create a project and get credentials from https://developers.facebook.com/apps/.
2. Step 2: Download Social Auth Facebook and The League OAuth2 Facebook library using Composer.
3. Step 3: Enable and configure Social Auth Facebook module.

Step 1: Create a project

• Create a new project on https://developers.facebook.com/apps/.
• For Authorized redirect URIs, enter the full url to your drupal project + /user/login/facebook/callback. For example, consider that your domain is http://www.example.com but your drupal project is in http://www.example.com/drupal. In this case you should enter http://www.example.com/drupal/user/login/facebook/callback

Step 2: Install Social Auth Facebook and The League OAuth2 Facebook Library.

On the the command line of your server, navigate to your Drupal root directory.

Let Composer download Social Auth Facebook (and all its dependencies). The following command will download the latest 2.x release of Social Auth Facebook:

composer require "drupal/social_auth_facebook:~2.0"

If you would like to use the 2.x-dev instead, use the following command:

composer require "drupal/social_api:2.x-dev" "drupal/social_auth:2.x-dev" "drupal/social_auth_facebook:2.x-dev"

Social Auth Facebook dev versions are usually only compatible with Social Auth and Social API dev versions. The command above installs the dev branch of all these modules.

Composer will automatically download  league/oauth2-facebook

Step 3: Enable and configure Social Auth Facebook module

Now that Composer has downloaded the Facebook API PHP Client library and other dependencies, you can enable Social Auth Facebook.

• The module settings can be configured on /admin/config/social-api/social-auth/facebook.
• Add your Client ID and Client Secret (from step 1) to the module settings.
• You probably also want to check your Drupal account settings at /admin/config/people/accounts, making sure that visitors can create accounts.

Check installation status and give it a try!

• After you have completed steps 1-3 above, verify that you can see that Composer has downloaded the The League OAuth2 Facebook library to vendor/league/facebook directory of your Drupal installation.
• Add a Social Auth Login block to any region. If you already have added a block before installing this module and nothing is shown, try rebuilding the cache.
• Click on the "Facebook" logo.
• Alternatively you can add a link anywhere on the site that points to user/login/facebook.

Support requests

• Before posting a support request, carefully read the installation instructions provided on this page and do the setup in this order.
• Once you have done this, you can post a support request at module issue queue. Support requests to the issue queue, please, not to the comments on this documentation page.
• When posting a support request, please inform if you were able to see any errors in the Recent Log entries.