Firebase Simple Login Issue with Phonegap

Question

I am trying to use "password" authentication with Firebase Simple Login in Phonegap but getting this error:

Web Console(857): FirebaseSimpleLogin(): Due to browser security restrictions,
loading applications via `file://*` URLs will prevent popup-based authentication
providers from working properly. When testing locally, you'll need to run a
barebones webserver on your machine rather than loading your test files via
`file://*`. The easiest way to run a barebones server on your local machine is
to `cd` to the root directory of your code and run `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`,
which will allow you to access your content via `http://127.0.0.1:8000/*`. at
file:///android_asset/www/js/firebase-simple-login.js:74

How can we solve this problem? Also what about the Auth settings in Firebase admin GUI. How can we allow Phonegap based apps to access Firebase server?

Answer 1

The error message states pretty clearly that you can't use popup authentication when accessing a page via file://. So instead of entering a local file path into the browser, you need to run an http server, and use a URL like http://localhost/ .

This isn't an issue with Firebase's security but instead a basic browser sandboxing feature.

Getting a server is pretty straightforward. If you're using python, as noted, you can run python -m SimpleHTTPServer . If node.js is more your ball of wax, there is a great, simple http-server lib for node as well. If you're on Mac, you already have one , and otherwise, you could try XAMPP .