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Configuring Facebook

Facebook can be used as a federated authenticator in the Identity Server. Do the following to configure the Identity Server to authenticate users using their Facebook credentials.

Note

This section gives you a quick understanding of configuring Facebook as Identity provider so that it acts as a federated authenticator. Check out the Logging in to your application via Identity Server using Facebook Credentials tutorial to try out an end to end scenario of using Facebook as a federated authenticator.

Before you begin

  1. Create a Facebook account and register an application on Facebook.
  2. Sign in to the WSO2 Identity Server Management Console at https://<Server Host>:9443/carbon using your username and password .

Follow the steps given below to add a new identity provider in WSO2 Identity Server.

  1. Download the WSO2 Identity Server from here and run it.
    Log in to the Management Console as administrator.

  2. In the Identity section under the Main tab of the Management Console, click Add under Identity Providers.

  3. Give a suitable name as the Identity Provider Name.
    identity-provider-name

  4. Go to Facebook Configuration under Federated Authenticators.

  5. Enter the following values in the form that appears:

    Field Description Sample Value
    Client Id

    This refers to the App ID you received from the Facebook app you created.

    Don't know the client ID?

    1. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/ and log in using your Facebook credentials.
    2. Click on your app from the My Apps drop-down list.
      You are navigated to the Dashboard of the application. Note down the App ID and the App secret.

    <Application ID of the Facebook App>
    Client Secret This refers to the App Secret you received from the Facebook app you created. <App Secret of the Facebook App>
    Scope Defines the permission to access particular information from a Facebook profile. See the Permissions Reference for a list of the different permission groups in Facebook APIs. email
    User Information Fields These are the claims related to the user account on Facebook. WSO2 Identity Server requests these fields from Facebook when a user is authenticated with Facebook through the IS. See public_profile permission for more information about these fields. id,name,gender,email,first_name,last_name,age_range,link
    Callback Url This is the URL to which the browser should be redirected after the authentication is successful. This should be the commonauth endpoint of Identity server. https://localhost:9443/commonauth

    facebook-configuration

  6. Select both checkboxes to Enable Facebook Authenticator and make it the Default.

  7. Click Register.

You have now added the identity provider.

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