Netlify-cms: Fix local access to the CMS when using Netlify Identify and External login

[zanona]

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

- What is the current behavior?

When using Netlify Identify, browsing http://localhost/admin will first ask to add Netlify site URL but then redirect the user to that URL once logged in, instead of being able to test locally.

- If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

1. Setup project with files as per documentation, having admin/index.html, admin/config.yml and insert identify script under index.html
2. Spin a server and go to http://localhost/admin
3. A modal popup asks for pointing to the Netlify Website
4. After that, we sign in.
5. Get redirected to Netlify URL rather than local server

- What is the expected behavior?

Users should be able to test the NetlifyCMS locally through localhost/admin

- Please mention your CMS, node.js, and operating system version.

CMS 0.5.0

[tech4him1]

@zanona Were you trying to login with an external provider (GitHub, Google, etc.), or an email and password?

[zanona]

Hi @tech4him1, I am trying to login through Github. So it gets redirected to Netlify URL after signed in with Github.

[tech4him1]

For me it is working with email/password login, it is just redirecting if I login with GitHub (or another external provider). This seems to be a bug with the Identity widget, so I created an issue there: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-identity-widget/issues/86.

[zanona]

Thanks, @tech4him1. I will follow through there. Will certainly use email/password for now in order to test locally. :) thanks for the tip.

[erquhart]

This should now be fixed (0.7.6), please re-open if not.

[tech4him1]

@erquhart This is still an issue for me, although it is really an issue in Identity (https://github.com/netlify/netlify-identity-widget/issues/86), not in the CMS. Do you want to leave this open here, or not?

[erquhart]

@tech4him1 we can leave this open to avoid duplicates until addressed.

[michaelreynolds]

I found that when entering at subdomain.netlify.com it will fail unless you add https — http will validate, but it fails on authentication.

also use localStorage.removeItem("netlifySiteURL"); in the browser console to reset as seen at https://github.com/netlify/netlify-identity-widget#faq

[erquhart]

External login is an upstream issue for https://github.com/netlify/netlify-identity-widget, not something we can handle here. Closing.

[kalwalt]

Does it works with a Jekyll site? i can not test in a localhost env. it redirect me everytime to my host site....

[mediamaker]

As a workaround, I was able to access the CMS on localhost by taking the access token returned in the URL after logging in with external provider and appending it to the URL localhost:8000/admin

[love2dishtech]

Can we open the CMS locally if we have only enabled Github for the authentication and authorization. For me, the production site works fine, but i cannot login locally. Any solutions for this?

[love2dishtech]

Can we open the CMS locally if we have only enabled Github for hentication and authorization. For me, the production site works fine, but i cannot login locally. Any solutions for this?

Just to update on this thread as I have figured it out. This works locally perfectly. What i was doing wrong was the site name. The site name configured was with www subdomain, but apparently looking from the network logs it was pointing without the subdomain. I had to change the internal storage of the browser, as it won't ask again.