Not able to get Persona authentication working

[PaulCapestany]

I can't seem to get Persona authentication working — though I'm not sure if it's something on my end or what..

I'm trying this out with a real Couchbase bucket since I've already had success running multiple apps that way. I added the sync function that was provided to my own json config file (gist). Yet when I run sync_gateway -personaOrigin="http://localhost:4984/" myconfig.json, while I'm seemingly able to log in with Persona on the actual iOS app, I can't set up any chats.

This is what I see in my sync_gateway logs:

23:10:11.849476 Opening Couchbase database couchchat on <http://localhost:8091>
23:10:11.930319 Connected to <http://localhost:8091>, pool default, bucket couchchat
23:10:11.951226 Auth: Saved user:: {"admin_channels":null,"all_channels":null,"disabled":true}
23:10:11.951237 Reset guest user to config
23:10:11.952005 Starting auth server on :4985
23:10:11.952351 Starting server on :4984 ...
23:18:09.899723 HTTP: GET /couchchat/_local/fbff5a95fd68dd1257bf38f2533294fc2b116788
23:18:09.900294 HTTP: GET /couchchat/_local/b240451141abfa19e44fcc02ba9a46ea0b096f34
23:18:09.919832 CRUD: Computed channels for "": {}
23:18:09.919941 CRUD: Computed channels for "": {}
23:18:09.920099 Auth failed for username="", cookie=<nil>
23:18:09.920155 HTTP:     --> 401 Invalid login
23:18:09.920376 Auth failed for username="", cookie=<nil>
23:18:09.920420 HTTP:     --> 401 Invalid login
23:18:09.963342 HTTP: GET /couchchat/_local/fbff5a95fd68dd1257bf38f2533294fc2b116788
23:18:09.963719 HTTP: GET /couchchat/_local/b240451141abfa19e44fcc02ba9a46ea0b096f34
23:18:09.963955 Auth failed for username="", cookie=<nil>
23:18:09.964052 HTTP:     --> 401 Invalid login
23:18:09.964355 Auth failed for username="", cookie=<nil>
23:18:09.964407 HTTP:     --> 401 Invalid login

I've tried quite a few different configurations but haven't been able to get any to work, not sure what I'm missing?

[snej]

Hm, looks like the client isn't even attempting a Persona login, else your server logs would be showing a POST to /couchchat/_persona.

If you turn on SyncVerbose logging in the client, there'll be a message of the form "Logging in with CBLPersonaAuthorizer at..." when it tries the login. Probably that won't show up since apparently it isn't even getting to that point; but the client logs would be useful to look at.

[PaulCapestany]

This is what I see when I turn SyncVerbose logging on:

2013-04-03 11:36:07.608 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; (null)
2013-04-03 11:36:07.949 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; 401 unauthorized
2013-04-03 11:36:07.950 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=0; mode=2; 0/0; 401 unauthorized
2013-04-03 11:37:09.590 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=0; mode=0; 0/0; 401 unauthorized
2013-04-03 11:37:09.593 CouchChat[3226:c07] Warning: Attempt to present <UINavigationController: 0x8c82d30> on <UINavigationController: 0x8c3b7e0> while a presentation is in progress!
2013-04-03 11:37:09.593 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; 401 unauthorized
2013-04-03 11:37:09.593 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; (null)
2013-04-03 11:37:09.630 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; 404 not_found
2013-04-03 11:37:09.631 CouchChat[3226:c07] Chat username = 'capestany@gmail.com'
2013-04-03 11:37:09.631 CouchChat[3226:c07] Setting chat username to 'capestany@gmail.com'
2013-04-03 11:37:09.632 CouchChat[3226:c07] Created user profile UserProfile[prof...com]
2013-04-03 11:37:09.634 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=0; mode=2; 0/0; 404 not_found

[snej]

This is what I see when I turn SyncVerbose logging on:

Hm, that output doesn’t show any logs from CBL, only the NSLogs from the chat app itself.

2013-04-03 11:37:09.593 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; (null)
2013-04-03 11:37:09.630 CouchChat[3226:c07] SYNCMGR: active=1; mode=3; 0/0; 404 not_found

The 404 makes me suspect you may have a mismatch between versions of CBL and the sync gateway. The API endpoint for Persona login changed from /_persona to /dbname/_persona a few weeks ago — if you have an older version of one or the other project, the login will fail with a 404.

[PaulCapestany]

Oops, I totally forgot that I needed to add -Log YES in order for LogSyncVerbose to actually do its thing — sorry about that! No wonder I was having issues figuring out what was going on...

Either way, I did finally get everything to work ☺

Just a heads up to anyone that may face similar issues: the Persona auth stuff seemed to only work for me after I got rid of all my previous Couchbase buckets. I'm not sure if there may have been some kinda conflict with the way the old buckets dealt with handling the sessions/Persona/etc stuff in the past that prevented things from working with the more recent commits or what — but basically starting everything as if from scratch is what did the trick for me.