Facebook API Error

No, you do not need an SSL certificate installed on your site for JFBConnect, or Facebook integration in particular, to function.

Your server does need to be able to make outgoing connections to servers that have SSL certificates. From the error you describe, it sounds like the OpenSSL library is not properly configured on your site in order to make these types of outgoing connections. SSL is used by almost all social networks to encrypt private data about the users that are logging into your site. That SSL is installed on their server though, and your server needs to be able to communicate with their servers over the encrypted channel.

I'd recommend contacting your hosting provider to ensure that OpenSSL and outgoing secure connections are possible from your server.

I hope that helps, but if not, please let me know and we'll help however we can.

Thanks,
Alex

Thanks for the updated information. A few things to note:
1) The OpenSSL version you have installed is out of date and is a version affected by the Heartbleed bug. Since you don't have an SSL certificate for your site, you aren't directly affected. If you ever install an SSL cert, you'll need to upgrade your OpenSSL. Otherwise, the version you're using *may* be part of the problem your having, but I doubt it.
2)The reason Facebook authentication isn't working is because your Gavick template is re-including the Facebook Javascript library, and that's conflicting with how JFBConnect has to initialize it's features. In the Autotune -> Error Check section, you should see a similar warning. When you disable the Gavick social integratino features, things should start working.
3) I'm not sure what's wrong with the Autotune -> Facebook App configuration. If you can't set the settings for your Application through Autotune, you'll need to do so manually. Mainly, ensure that the Site URL and Domain for your site are correct in the Facebook Developer Area .

I hope that helps get you started. You don't have to run the Autotune Facebook App setup process for authentication to work, it just makes things easier.

Alex

Glad to hear we're making progress. I'm not sure what the Autotune / SSL error is. If things are working though, I'd honestly say to skip it. Autotune is meant to be a tool to help get things setup in your Application. If things are already working, you don't really need to run it. Things like the Error Check tool should still work, and those are more important on an ongoing basis as we update the error checks periodically, making it easier to diagnose new issues that crop up with the social networks or various extensions.

If you really want us to investigate further, or certainly if you run into any issues, just let us know. We'll gladly help however we can.

Thanks,
Alex

That URL looks correct for a step in the authentication flow. You mention you're getting an error. Can you tell me what that error is? That will help us narrow things down further.

One other quick thing to try is, if you have any Social Profile plugins enabled, please disable them, temporarily, to see if that fixes the error during login.

Thanks,
Alex

I'm sorry for the issues you've been running into. This isn't something we've heard of before, but have found a solution that some users using other systems (not JFBConnect) have said work when they run into this problem when connecting to Facebook.

Can you please edit the /administrator/components/com_jfbconnect/assets/facebook-api/base_facebook.php file. Around line 171, you'll see a section that looks like:Can you update that so it looks like:The difference there is the addition of the SSLVERSION line at the bottom.

Please test and let me know if that helps. Again, that's just a guess, but from what we can tell, has worked for other users trying to implement Facebook integration.

Thanks,
Alex