Topic-icon Help, please: API error on JFBConnect config

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12 years 1 month ago #43273 by amzath
Dear JFBConnect Team

This is to request support on how to configure the component.
I purchased it yesterday and actually thought I'd be able to get it up and running in a flash.
However, after spending more than 6 hours on it, I have to admit I've failed to make it work.
Tried everything, rang my host, re-installed, the component, re-configured FB application, but I'm still stuck at the basic info stage, where I keep getting the following error message:
Error
Facebook API Error: name lookup timed out

I'd very much appreciate your help in resolving this.
Thanks
Amzath
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12 years 1 month ago #43283 by alzander
A "Name lookup timeout" is an indication of a server misconfiguration problem. It means your server is unable to resolve the IP address for any of the following URLs:
api.facebook.com/
api-read.facebook.com/
graph.facebook.com/
www.facebook.com/
api-video.facebook.com/

For many of JFBConnect's functions, your server will need to be able to communicate with Facebook's servers to authenticate the user, post content on their behalf or do the general configuration of your app. You'll need to contact your hosting company to make sure that DNS requests are properly working for those domains above and that outgoing requests to other servers are available (not blocked by a firewall, for example).

I hope that helps explain things. There's nothing in JFBConnect that we can do to get around this as it's lower level than JFBConnect or even Joomla itself.

Thanks,
Alex
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