Integration with vBulletin - MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On

Overview:
This hack provides single sign-on capability for MediaWiki using your vBulletin users. You must ensure your cookie path in Admin CP is set to '/' for this to work. Also, I have not tested this if your wiki and your forums are on different subdomains - but as long as your have your cookie domain set properly it *should* work. This is not a user bridge - it is a complete single sign-on using your vBulletin user repository.

The install process has been extremely simplified in version 2.x of this product. You only have to edit LocalSettings.php, import a product, and change a setting in your Admin Control Panel. It's been completely packaged as a vBulletin product - unlike the previous hacked up version, heh. I didn't originally plan to release this so I designed it so it worked - not so it could be redistributed. I searched high and low for a functional MediaWiki bridge - almost bought NuHIT's product, and then realized it had been abandoned for over a year.

This hack no longer requires an edit to class_core.php.

I'll do my best to support it, but I can make no promises.

This thread is for discussion of this mod on vB 3.7.x. For vB 3.8.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.8 thread

Demo of plugin in action: MyMMOGames - Multiplayer Gaming and Media Community

Also, if you use memcached - ensure you do not cache sessions. If you do, restart it at least once a week. If you don't, you'll end up with invalid session errors out of MediaWiki.

Requirements:
MediaWiki Version: 1.11.0-1.14.0
vBulletin Version: 3.6.9-3.8.2

Features:
- Provides single sign on capability between vBulletin and Mediawiki. vBulletin user repository is used
- Configurable sysop/bureaucrat groups
- Configurable disallowed user groups
- Configurable "Who's Online" display
- Counts users viewing wiki in vBulletin's "Who's Online"

Installation/Upgrade:
Please read the included "readme.txt" file in the "docs (do not upload)" folder.

Options:
Admin Control Panel->vBulletin Options->MMOG Wiki Options

Change Log:
1.0.0.0 - Sep 18, 2008
- Initial Release

1.0.3.0 - Sep 29, 2008
- Bugfix: Incorrect redirects for login/logout

2.0.0.0 - Sep 30, 2008
- Feature: Streamlined installation procedure
- Feature: Wiki path set in ACP
- Bugfix: Forum paths no longer hardcoded

2.1.0 - Oct 4, 2008
- Feature: ACP option to use MediaWiki Short URLs
- Feature: ACP option to set sysop groups
- Feature: ACP option to set bureaucrat groups
- Feature: ACP option to disallow login to certain groups
- Feature: ACP option to change WOL display text

2.2.0 - May 1, 2005
- Bugfix: Users are not logged out when logging out of the forum
- Bugfix: No longer requires modification to class_core.php
- Feature: Mediawiki 1.13.0+ supported (verified on 1.14.0 also)

If you like it, please click "mark as installed" The more people that use this, the more time I will make to try and support/update it.

Been pulling your hair out looking for this as long as I have? Nominate it for Mod of the Month =]

AuthPlugin was inspired by and modified from this existing MediaWiki Extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QISSingleSignOn

[raisun]

actually, AuthPlugin_cVBSSO is located at /home/mouseinf/public_html/info/wiki/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php which is how i have it called in LocalSettings.php

Currently I have VB and MW installed in different subdirectories.

EDIT - Update:
I found a hotfix for the other product. Apparently there are several other products that cause the same issue.

Thanks for your help!

[Varsh]

I didn't know exactly where you had it but you just needed to change it to exactly what yours was supposed to be.

It seems that there's a lot of plugins conflicting with this mod for some reason, how weird.

[emperatour]

Originally Posted by obsidian

I just got everything running with Vb 3.72 and MW 1.13.
Steps I followed:
- Install media Wiki
- Edit the Localsettings file with

define( VB_SYSTEM_PATH, '/var/www/html/forum' );
require_once( "$IP/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php" );
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

- Set the VB path in the localsettings file and then uploaded it.
- Edited the AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php file from:
$wgHooks[AutoAuthenticate ][] = 'vBSSOAutoAuth';
to
$wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] = 'vBSSOAutoAuth';
- uploaded the files in the upload directory

- edited User.php as stated in Post #143

After that I just went to the Wiki page and refreshed and it showed me logged in. I did not make any of the class_core.php edits.

Great Hack... just takes a bit of patience to work through it due to all the new versions.

Running successfully with vBulletin 3.8.0 and MediaWiki 1.13.3.
Thanks for instruction,

[pete_brady]

anyone got any advice on template integration?

[dutchbb]

Installed it but it doesn't 'save' the login on the wiki side, what could be wrong?

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by shikareez

From MW 1.13+ the "AutoAuthenticate" Hook is renamed to "UserLoadFromSession". So just follow all the instruction and at all, just edit the hook name to "UserLoadFromSession" at near the end of AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php.

Omg, can the coder PLEASE add this to the first post, I searched for hours trying to solve this issue, only to found this solution somewhere on page 7 in this thread.

Thanks for the hack, but please update it, it's just to important not to!!

[KrisP]

Originally Posted by emperatour

Running successfully with vBulletin 3.8.0 and MediaWiki 1.13.3.
Thanks for instruction,

Installing this is a nightmare. Tried above with 3.7.4 PL1 + 3.13.3 and dosent work.

[Vitaly]

How to eliminate php notice "Constant CWD already defined in ..../global.php" ?

[optrex]

Originally Posted by shikareez

From MW 1.13+ the "AutoAuthenticate" Hook is renamed to "UserLoadFromSession". So just follow all the instruction and at all, just edit the hook name to "UserLoadFromSession" at near the end of AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php.

I have just installed mediawiki 1.13.3 with vb 3.8 and it seems to be running well so far. The only thing I have changed from the original instructions is this (above).

Thanks for a great hack

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by pete_brady

anyone got any advice on template integration?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=193244