Can’t authenticate on local/dev/staging installation
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Hi, first thank you so much for making this plugin! I have looked at all the big ones and they are so bloated and corrupt with marketing, I’m really glad to find your plugin which is simple yet powerful.
I got it working on a Dreamhost-hosted site (basic hosting) and it’s great!
Now I’m trying to use it for our non-profits more “enterprise” sites, where the first step is testing it on the local copy of the sites on my laptop.
For some reason the authentication just keeps failing. Is this normal/expected? Does the site have to be visible online like with the Google Site Kit plugin?
When I go to
admin.php?page=aiwp_settingsI always see this message:Something went wrong, check [Errors & Debug] or [authorize] the plugin.When I click “Authorize Plugin” it seems to work. I get taken to Google, accept, then come back, but just see the same buttons as before along with the “Something went wrong” message.
Thank you so much for any help you can provide! I would love to choose this plugin and work on it with you in the future! I see you have a GitHub and would love to submit some PR if I can get it working!
Here’s my debug stuff:
PHP Error log: I checked the PHP Error log and there was nothing there.
Error details: The count goes up for each time I click Authorize and go through the process with google:
Error Details Count: 4 Last Error: GAPI Error:Sampled Data NonePlugin configuration is basically default:
Plugin Configuration Array ( [client_id] => [client_secret] => [access_front] => Array ( [0] => administrator ) [access_back] => Array ( [0] => administrator ) [tableid_jail] => [webstream_jail] => [theme_color] => #1e73be [switch_profile] => 0 [tracking_type] => globalsitetag [reporting_type] => 0 [ga_anonymize_ip] => 0 [user_api] => 0 [ga_event_tracking] => 0 [ga_event_downloads] => zip|mp3*|mpe*g|pdf|docx*|pptx*|xlsx*|rar* [track_exclude] => Array ( ) [ga_target_geomap] => [ga_realtime_pages] => 10 [token] => [ga_profiles_list] => Array ( ) [ga4_webstreams_list] => Array ( ) [ga_enhanced_links] => 0 [ga_remarketing] => 0 [network_mode] => 0 [ga_speed_samplerate] => 1 [ga_user_samplerate] => 100 [ga_event_bouncerate] => 0 [ga_crossdomain_tracking] => 0 [ga_crossdomain_list] => [ga_author_dimindex] => 0 [ga_category_dimindex] => 0 [ga_tag_dimindex] => 0 [ga_user_dimindex] => 0 [ga_pubyear_dimindex] => 0 [ga_pubyearmonth_dimindex] => 0 [ga_aff_tracking] => 0 [ga_event_affiliates] => /out/ [backend_item_reports] => 1 [backend_realtime_report] => 0 [frontend_item_reports] => 0 [dashboard_widget] => 1 [api_backoff] => 0 [ga_cookiedomain] => [ga_cookiename] => [ga_cookieexpires] => [pagetitle_404] => Page Not Found [maps_api_key] => [tm_author_var] => 0 [tm_category_var] => 0 [tm_tag_var] => 0 [tm_user_var] => 0 [tm_pubyear_var] => 0 [tm_pubyearmonth_var] => 0 [web_containerid] => [amp_containerid] => [amp_tracking_tagmanager] => 0 [amp_tracking_analytics] => 0 [amp_tracking_clientidapi] => 0 [trackingcode_infooter] => 0 [trackingevents_infooter] => 0 [ecommerce_mode] => disabled [ga_formsubmit_tracking] => 0 [optimize_tracking] => 0 [optimize_containerid] => [optimize_pagehiding] => 0 [superadmin_tracking] => 0 [ga_pagescrolldepth_tracking] => 0 [tm_pagescrolldepth_tracking] => 0 [ga_event_precision] => 0 [ga_force_ssl] => 0 [ga_optout] => 0 [ga_dnt_optout] => 0 [tm_optout] => 0 [tm_dnt_optout] => 0 [ga_enhanced_excludesa] => 0 [ga_hash_tracking] => 0 [aiwp_hidden] => Y [sites_list_locked] => 0 [wp_version] => 6.0.2 [aiwp_version] => 5.7.7 )System Information Server Info: nginx/1.19.2 PHP Version: 7.3.27 cURL Info: 7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2u Gzip: YesMore info: macOS 12.6 running MAMP Pro 6.4.2.
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Fixing the SSL problem with MAMP
FIGURED IT OUT!!! Thank you for your help.
I traced it down through the Google apiclient vendor library, down to Guzzle, where I could make it work by disabling all verification:
But this wasn’t a solution at all, because even you shouldn’t modify that file (I was thinking of asking you to add a filter for me to use on my dev machine, but that would be terrible considering it’s a Google library you don’t control).
So then I kept digging and finally found this Stack Overflow answer which is specific to MAMP Pro. It seems that MAMP Pro has a long-standing bug related to their cacert.pem file.
By replacing the cacert.pem file from MAMP Pro with the one from curl, I got the plugin working with verify enabled in Guzzle!
SO: If you hear of others with this problem on macOS/MAMP Pro, please point them to that SO post, or this thread, as it’s a relatively easy fix.
I will investigate with MAMP Pro themselves as to why this fix is needed, since of course it will be annoying to re-do this every time MAMP updates!
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Surfacing the SSL error in AIWP
In terms of AIWP, the only loose-end is the fact that the error didn’t surface at all. A normal user would never have been able to figure out it was an SSL error since there was nothing in the logs and nothing on the screen, but it seems like the exception thrown by Guzzle was available to AIWP, so it could have been shown.
Would you like me to work on trying to surface that error? Do you want to take a stab at it?
I don’t know how you would normally surface an error to the UI of the settings page, so if you want me to look at it, any tips on how to do that would be helpful.
It seems like you already log the error, as seen in the first screenshot I sent of AIWP_GAPI_Controller->authenticate(), so maybe the point is to just make sure that errors from
AIWP_GAPI_Controller->set_error()get shown?Thank you so much for your help in this thread, I am very impressed with your attention to this plugin!
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P.S. If you need a way to replicate this problem to make sure the error gets surfaced, this one-line edit to the Google apiclient will have the same effect as the bug in MAMP:
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