What is a valid URL? I'm getting an error that the URL I am using is not the valid format. I'm trying to set up Drupal twitter module

shaukatwaqar · 2012-07-18T16:57:02.000Z

this is insane, developers normally test the code locally before deploying to actual site. Not accepting localhost or not providing any alternate to it, is making lyf miserable.

gpgggg · 2012-08-03T12:39:56.000Z

Twitter needs to cater for localhost !!!

mArtinko5MB · 2012-08-07T12:49:25.000Z

i’m quite dissappointed … I’m developing on localhost, but now i have to wait for geting web on server for this implementation.

How is that even possible, that twitter doesn’t allow localhost in app registration ?

MegaloPrint · 2012-08-08T05:22:10.000Z

Glad I found this stream. Am also working on localhost but it wasn’t clear with the error code that this is the problem. Seems a little nuts that you can’t trouble shoot all this before you go live. Seems unprofessional from our end.

Viswanath_Sah · 2012-08-08T15:22:37.000Z

Hi all, I was also disappointed after hearing that, twitter can’t accept localhost.
And now i am glad that we have an option to use localhost by replacing localhost to 127.0.0.1

merichelli · 2012-09-03T07:25:40.000Z

deneme

carats5 · 2012-09-05T19:47:56.000Z

Ditto to all who complained about twitter’s create application that dose not accept localhost.
The error message “Invalid URL format” is very ambiguous.
And the CAPTCHA is very hard to read.

surginno · 2012-09-17T07:40:02.000Z

This “Not valid URL format” issue has been going on for ages… what exactly is the problem Twitter? Anyone got a solid work around? Because every site I build (in Drupal) comes up against this and there doesn’t seem to be any predictability to whether it works or not… grrrrrrr! I’m using client’s account to post this!

chimkan · 2012-09-29T19:30:40.000Z

I also have the same issue with NOT A VALID URL. And I tried my domains http://chimkan.com and it’s not working.

Bonny5171 · 2012-11-08T01:26:54.000Z

I had the same problem, the solution was to put the url call back to the same url site, so only succeed

oldtestamentlaw · 2012-11-08T07:28:16.000Z

This worked. Thanks

nanofungibles · 2012-11-08T12:50:36.000Z

Name prob here. It doesn’t seem to matter what I enter

born_yesterday · 2012-11-08T18:22:49.000Z

Same problem here, a simple error message tell me “Not a valid URL format”. It looks like some high school kid designed this screen. Twitter, please hire some professional people to make this user interface more user friendly.

CollegeSpirit · 2012-11-11T19:11:59.000Z

same problem smh twitter support is terrible

born_yesterday · 2012-11-19T19:20:43.000Z

One workaround to test it on localhost is to add the DNS in your hosts file (/etc/hosts), like this:
127.0.0.1 www.yourDNSname.com

Hope this help.

born_yesterday · 2012-11-19T19:35:26.000Z

This worked for me. The next step is to test it under localhost which you can add www.example.com to your hosts file (/etc/hosts), like this:

127.0.0.1 www.example.com

WebVedamdotcom · 2012-11-22T00:37:32.000Z

same notavalidURL problem

TestingCsoft · 2012-12-15T05:37:23.000Z

I am having same issue.

Why this is failed then?

http://viveloungewp.api.oneall.com

Thank you.

sanjay9511 · 2012-12-15T05:37:21.000Z

I have read all of above post and try every suggestion but getting same “not a valid URL format”.
It’s ridicules.

TestingCsoft · 2012-12-15T05:38:46.000Z

Not a valid site, I thought