Error When Authenticating through Gmail

Go into the Google dev console, delete the Client ID/Client Secret and create a new one.

Why? Wrong user logged into Google, or wrong redirect URL, or a new Gmail address that has never been logged into, or Google is just having a bad day.

I tried creating a new client ID and got the same result. I went into incognito mode and created another gmail address and setup everything and still encountered that error. There were no other gmail accounts logged into at the time. Could this be a server setting on my end?

I’m going to try it right now..

You know, re-reading your initial post… you had a timeout. Which is not an error, but Google just taking longer than usual. The plugin waited 10 seconds and then gave up.

If you’re 100% sure you have no problems reaching https://accounts.google.com from this server, try increasing the Connection Timeout to 30 seconds in the Postman advanced settings.

is this a new host? Possible firewall issues?

This is a new server – and we upgraded our firewall – Here is the most recent error after changing the time to 30 seconds. [Error executing wp_remote_post: Failed to connect to https://www.googleapis.com port 443: Connection timed out]. If you think this is a firewall issue Ill get out server admin to take a look – Thanks!

Yes, looks like a firewall. What does the Connectivity Test say?

Port 587 is the only one open – all the other ports are closed

443 (the secure web port) is closed as well? That explains why you can’t authenticate with Google. Unfortunately you’ll have to use password authentication if you can’t get 443 open.

It was that easy ?? opened up that port and everything worked properly! Thanks for instruction.

Great!! ??