Netlify CI deploy builds and Auth0 Allowed Callback URLs

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My app is hosted/build on Netlify. Every time I make a PR to the source on GitHub, Netlify builds a “deploy build” at the URL “develop-preview-<PR_number>-my-app-name.netlify.app”.

Without needing to go to my Auth0 management console and adding each URL to my “Allowed Callback URLs”, is there a way to have a wildcard in the URL? Something like “*-my-app-name.netlify.app” maybe?

It’s the same issue as this gentleman was having, but his issue went unsolved.

Thanks,
Donavon

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Hello @donavon,

Welcome to the Community.

The only wildcard option that would work is:

https://*.netlify.app

Which is obviously a bad idea. Wildcarding a partial name is not supported.

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So I’m stuck between two companies. I either convince Auth0 to support wildcarding on partial names or convince Netlify to support develop-preview-<PR_number>.my-app-name.netlify.app (notice the dot before “my-app-name” instead of the dash).

Without one of these, I can’t use deploy preview branches that work against Auth0 (without manual intervention).

Or… a crazy idea is that on a successful Netlify deploy, I hit the Auth0 API to add the deployed URL as an allowed callback. The list would get rather long though (i.e. hundreds of URLs)! Does this API even exist?

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You can certainly update the configuration via the API. We ran into the same problem using heroku preview deploys.

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For anyone listening, I’ve found this Netlify plug-in. I haven’t implemented it yet, but it looks promising.

More info here:

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I got this to work!

I created a simple Auth0 managed React app to test how to get Netlify deploy preview functionality working.

We just needed to add the netlify preview URL to these fields in Auth0

  • Allowed Callback URLs ,
  • Allowed Logout URLs , and
  • Allowed Web Origins

Make sure there’s a comma between each URL in the list

Netlify preview URL example:
“https://deploy-preview-*–your-subdomain-12345.netlify.app/”