Google OAuth 2 authorization - Error: redirect_uri_mismatch

Question

On the website https://code.google.com/apis/console I have registered my application, set up generated Client ID: and Client Secret to my app and tried to log in with Google. Unfortunately, I got the error message:

Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
The redirect URI in the request: http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/google_oauth2/callback did not match a registered redirect URI

scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
response_type=code
redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/google_oauth2/callback
access_type=offline
approval_prompt=force
client_id=generated_id

What does mean this message, and how can I fix it? I use the gem omniauth-google-oauth2.

Answer 1

The redirect URI (where the response is returned to) has to be registered in the APIs console, and the error is indicating that you haven't done that, or haven't done it correctly.

Go to the console for your project and look under API Access. You should see your client ID & client secret there, along with a list of redirect URIs. If the URI you want isn't listed, click edit settings and add the URI to the list.

EDIT: (From a highly rated comment below) Note that updating the google api console and that change being present can take some time. Generally only a few minutes but sometimes it seems longer.

Answer 2

In my case it was www and non-www URL. Actual site had www URL and the Authorized Redirect URIs in Google Developer Console had non-www URL. Hence, there was mismatch in redirect URI. I solved it by updating Authorized Redirect URIs in Google Developer Console to www URL.

Other common URI mismatch are:

• Using http:// in Authorized Redirect URIs and https:// as actual URL, or vice-versa
• Using trailing slash (http://example.com/) in Authorized Redirect URIs and not using trailing slash (http://example.com) as actual URL, or vice-versa

Here are the step-by-step screenshots of Google Developer Console so that it would be helpful for those who are getting it difficult to locate the developer console page to update redirect URIs.

1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com

2. Select your Project

3. Click on the menu icon

4. Click on API Manager menu

5. Click on Credentials menu. And under OAuth 2.0 Client IDs, you will find your client name. In my case, it is Web Client 1. Click on it and a popup will appear where you can edit Authorized Javascript Origin and Authorized redirect URIs.

Note: The Authorized URI includes all localhost links by default, and any live version needs to include the full path, not just the domain, e.g. https://example.com/path/to/oauth/url

Here is a Google article on creating project and client ID.

Answer 3

If you're using Google+ javascript button, then you have to use postmessage instead of the actual URI. It took me almost the whole day to figure this out since Google's docs do not clearly state it for some reason.

Answer 4

In any flow where you retrieved an authorization code on the client side, such as the GoogleAuth.grantOfflineAccess() API, and now you want to pass the code to your server, redeem it, and store the access and refresh tokens, then you have to use the literal string postmessage instead of the redirect_uri.

For example, building on the snippet in the Ruby doc:

client_secrets = Google::APIClient::ClientSecrets.load('client_secrets.json')
auth_client = client_secrets.to_authorization
auth_client.update!(
  :scope => 'profile https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly',
  :redirect_uri => 'postmessage' # <---- HERE
)

# Inject user's auth_code here:
auth_client.code = "4/lRCuOXzLMIzqrG4XU9RmWw8k1n3jvUgsI790Hk1s3FI"
tokens = auth_client.fetch_access_token!
# { "access_token"=>..., "expires_in"=>3587, "id_token"=>..., "refresh_token"=>..., "token_type"=>"Bearer"}

The only Google documentation to even mention postmessage is this old Google+ sign-in doc. Here's a screenshot and archive link since G+ is closing and this link will likely go away:

It is absolutely unforgivable that the doc page for Offline Access doesn't mention this. #FacePalm

Answer 5

For my web application i corrected my mistake by writing

instead of : http://localhost:11472/authorize/
type :      http://localhost/authorize/

Answer 6

Make sure to check the protocol "http://" or "https://" as google checks protocol as well. Better to add both URL in the list.

Answer 7

This seems quite strange and annoying that no "one" solution is there. for me http://localhost:8000 did not worked out but http://localhost:8000/ worked out.

Answer 8

This answer is same as this Mike's answer, and Jeff's answer, both sets redirect_uri to postmessage on client side. I want to add more about the server side, and also the special circumstance applying to this configuration.

Tech Stack

Backend

• Python 3.6
• Django 1.11
• Django REST Framework 3.9: server as API, not rendering template, not doing much elsewhere.
• Django REST Framework JWT 1.11
• Django REST Social Auth < 2.1

Frontend

• React: 16.8.3, create-react-app version 2.1.5
• react-google-login: 5.0.2

The "Code" Flow (Specifically for Google OAuth2)

Summary: React --> request social auth "code" --> request jwt token to acquire "login" status in terms of your own backend server/database.

1. Frontend (React) uses a "Google sign in button" with responseType="code" to get an authorization code. (it's not token, not access token!)
   • The google sign in button is from react-google-login mentioned above.
   • Click on the button will bring up a popup window for user to select account. After user select one and the window closes, you'll get the code from the button's callback function.
2. Frontend send this to backend server's JWT endpoint.
   • POST request, with { "provider": "google-oauth2", "code": "your retrieved code here", "redirect_uri": "postmessage" }
3. For my Django server I use Django REST Framework JWT + Django REST Social Auth. Django receives the code from frontend, verify it with Google's service (done for you). Once verified, it'll send the JWT (the token) back to frontend. Frontend can now harvest the token and store it somewhere.
   • All of REST_SOCIAL_OAUTH_ABSOLUTE_REDIRECT_URI, REST_SOCIAL_DOMAIN_FROM_ORIGIN and REST_SOCIAL_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI in Django's settings.py are unnecessary. (They are constants used by Django REST Social Auth) In short, you don't have to setup anything related to redirect url in Django. The "redirect_uri": "postmessage" in React frontend suffice. This makes sense because the social auth work you have to do on your side is all Ajax-style POST request in frontend, not submitting any form whatsoever, so actually no redirection occur by default. That's why the redirect url becomes useless if you're using the code + JWT flow, and the server-side redirect url setting is not taking any effect.
4. The Django REST Social Auth handles account creation. This means it'll check the google account email/last first name, and see if it match any account in database. If not, it'll create one for you, using the exact email & first last name. But, the username will be something like youremailprefix717e248c5b924d60 if your email is [email protected]. It appends some random string to make a unique username. This is the default behavior, I believe you can customize it and feel free to dig into their documentation.
5. The frontend stores that token and when it has to perform CRUD to the backend server, especially create/delete/update, if you attach the token in your Authorization header and send request to backend, Django backend will now recognize that as a login, i.e. authenticated user. Of course, if your token expire, you have to refresh it by making another request.

Oh my goodness, I've spent more than 6 hours and finally got this right! I believe this is the 1st time I saw this postmessage thing. Anyone working on a Django + DRF + JWT + Social Auth + React combination will definitely crash into this. I can't believe none of the article out there mentions this except answers here. But I really hope this post can save you tons of time if you're using the Django + React stack.

Answer 9

Checklist:

• http or https?
• & or &?
• trailing slash(/) or open ?
• (CMD/CTRL)+F, search for the exact match in the credential page. If not found then search for the missing one.
• Wait until google refreshes it. May happen in each half an hour if you are changing frequently or it may stay in the pool. For my case it was almost half an hour to take effect.

Answer 10

When you register your app at https://code.google.com/apis/console and make a Client ID, you get a chance to specify one or more redirect URIs. The value of the redirect_uri parameter on your auth URI has to match one of them exactly.

Answer 11

2015July15 - the signin that was working last week with this script on login

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js" async defer></script>

stopped working and started causing Error 400 with Error: redirect_uri_mismatch

and in the DETAILS section: redirect_uri=storagerelay://...

i solved it by changing to:

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/client:platform.js?onload=startApp"></script>

Answer 12

In my case, my credential Application type is "Other". So I can't find Authorized redirect URIs in the credentials page. It seems appears in Application type:"Web application". But you can click the Download JSON button to get the client_secret.json file.

Open the json file, and you can find the parameter like this: "redirect_uris":["urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob","http://localhost"]. I choose to use http://localhost and it works fine for me.

Answer 13

If you use this tutorial: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/server-side-flow then you should use "postmessage".

In GO this fixed the problem:

confg = &oauth2.Config{
        RedirectURL:  "postmessage",
        ClientID:   ...,
        ClientSecret: ...,
        Scopes:      ...,
        Endpoint:     google.Endpoint,
}

Answer 14

beware of the extra / at the end of the url http://localhost:8000 is different from http://localhost:8000/

Answer 15

The redirect url is case sensitive.

In my case I added both: http://localhost:5023/AuthCallback/IndexAsync http://localhost:5023/authcallback/indexasync

Answer 16

Rails users (from the omniauth-google-oauth2 docs):

Fixing Protocol Mismatch for redirect_uri in Rails

Just set the full_host in OmniAuth based on the Rails.env.

# config/initializers/omniauth.rb

OmniAuth.config.full_host = Rails.env.production? ? 'https://domain.com' : 'http://localhost:3000'

REMEMBER: Do not include the trailing "/"

Answer 17

None of the above solutions worked for me. below did

change authorised Redirect urls to - https://localhost:44377/signin-google

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 18

for me it was because in the 'Authorized redirect URIs' list I've incorrectly put https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/ instead of https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground (without / at the end).

Answer 19

Just make sure that you are entering URL and not just a domain. So instead of: domain.com it should be domain.com/somePathWhereYouHadleYourRedirect

Answer 20

Anyone struggling to find where to set redirect urls in the new console: APIs & Auth -> Credentials -> OAuth 2.0 client IDs -> Click the link to find all your redirect urls

Answer 21

My problem was that I had http://localhost:3000/ in the address bar and had http://127.0.0.1:3000/ in the console.developers.google.com

Answer 22

Let me complete @Bazyl's answer: in the message I received, they mentioned the URI "http://localhost:8080/" (which of course, seems an internal google configuration). I changed the authorized URI for that one, "http://localhost:8080/" , and the message didn't appear anymore... And the video got uploaded... The APIS documentation is VERY lame... Every time I have something working with google apis, I simply feel "lucky", but there's a lack of good documentation about it.... :( Yes, I got it working, but I don't yet understand neither why it failed, nor why it worked... There was only ONE place to confirm the URI in the web, and it got copied in the client_secrets.json... I don't get if there's a THIRD place where one should write the same URI... I find nor only the documentation but also the GUI design of Google's api quite lame...

Answer 23

I needed to create a new client ID under APIs & Services -> Credentials -> Create credentials -> OAuth -> Other

Then I downloaded and used the client_secret.json with my command line program that is uploading to my youtube account. I was trying to use a Web App OAuth client ID which was giving me the redirect URI error in browser.

Answer 24

I have frontend app and backend api.

From my backend server I was testing by hitting google api and was facing this error. During my whole time I was wondering of why should I need to give redirect_uri as this is just the backend, for frontend it makes sense.

What I was doing was giving different redirect_uri (though valid) from server (assuming this is just placeholder, it just has only to be registered to google) but my frontend url that created token code was different. So when I was passing this code in my server side testing(for which redirect-uri was different), I was facing this error.

So don't do this mistake. Make sure your frontend redirect_uri is same as your server's as google use it to validate the authenticity.

Answer 25

The main reason for this issue will only come from chrome and chrome handles WWW and non www differently depending on how you entered your URL in the browsers and it searches from google and directly shows the results, so the redirection URL sent is different in a different case

Add all the possible combinations you can find the exact url sent from fiddler , the 400 error pop up will not give you the exact http and www infromation

Answer 26

My two cents:
If using the Google_Client library do not forget to update the JSON file on your server after updating the redirect URI's.

Answer 27

Try to do these checks:

1. Bundle ID in console and in your application. I prefer set Bundle ID of application like this "org.peredovik.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}"
2. Check if you added URL types at tab Info just type your Bundle ID in Identifier and URL Schemes, role set to Editor
3. In console at cloud.google.com "APIs & auth" -> "Consent screen" fill form about your application. "Product name" is required field.

Enjoy :)

Answer 28

In my case I had to check the Client ID type for web applications/installed applications.

installed applications: http://localhost [Redirect URIs] In this case localhost simply works

web applications: You need valid domain name [Redirect URIs:]

Answer 29

What you need to do is go back to your Developer Console and go to APIs & Auth > Consent Screen and fill that out. Specifically, the product name.

Answer 30

I had two request URIs in the Console, http://xxxxx/client/api/spreadsheet/authredirect and http://localhost.

I tried all the top responses to this question and confirmed that none of them were my problem.

I removed localhost from the Console, updated my client_secret.json in my project, and the mismatch error went away.