Cannot Attach to Backend

[BrianSHenderson]

When I pull from GitHub to a new machine I get errors when doing commands such as:
awsmobile pull
awsmobile console
Where I receive:
backend awsmobile project unknown

Attempting to do:
awsmobile init
Gives an Invalid Signature error

Any ideas?

[jordanranz]

Curious what you mean by "pull from Github". Could you elaborate.

awsmobile pull and awsmobile console can only be run in a valid awsmobile project. You generally want to run awsmobile init prior to running these commands.

Could you provide a more verbose error output from the Invalid Signature error you are receiving.

[BrianSHenderson]

I have downloaded the source code from GitHub. I believe aws-export.js is not included on GitHub by default.

Brians-iMac-Pro:nmm-vegas brianhenderson$ awsmobile init <awsmobile-project-id>

failed to link to backend awsmobile project with id = <awsmobile-project-id>

Invalid Signature

{ InvalidSignatureException: The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your AWS Secret Access Key and signing method. Consult the service documentation for details.
at Object.extractError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/protocol/json.js:48:27)
at Request.extractError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/protocol/rest_json.js:52:8)
at Request.callListeners (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/sequential_executor.js:105:20)
at Request.emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/sequential_executor.js:77:10)
at Request.emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:683:14)
at Request.transition (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:22:10)
at AcceptorStateMachine.runTo (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/state_machine.js:14:12)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/state_machine.js:26:10
at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:38:9)
at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/awsmobile-cli/node_modules/aws-sdk/lib/request.js:685:12)
message: 'The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your AWS Secret Access Key and signing method. Consult the service documentation for details.',
code: 'InvalidSignatureException',
time: 2018-07-03T17:25:10.071Z,
requestId: '1998f433-3cf4-49d1-be71-81e0be0a2e11',
statusCode: 403,
retryable: false,
retryDelay: 61.38202607007908 }

to change the configuration for the awsmobile-cli

$ awsmobile configure aws

Changing the awsmobile configure doesn't make any difference

[UnleashedMind]

Please make sure you are using the same credentials to access aws.
You can do a side by side comparison by
awsmobile configure aws -l
on the two machines and see if they are the same

[BrianSHenderson]

I have exactly the same credentials with awsmobile and aws cli along with the same npm versions of aws-amplify and aws-amplify-react, what else can I check?

[kaustavghosh06]

@BrianSHenderson We've deprecated the awsmobile-cli. Please use the amplify-cli to build your app moving forward or use the https://github.com/awslabs/amplify-mobilehub-migrator to migrate your MobileHub project and then use the amplify-cli.

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