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 3.8.x. For vB 3.7.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.7 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

[Dekard]

Needless to say, this mod is great for vb 3.8 but I wouldn't recommend running in a vb 4.0 site at all. When attempting to run this mod on an a site with the 4.0 beta 3 installed the following errors are produced on all pages of the wiki and no further content is rendered. Just the error message.

Warning: require(./includes/class_bootstrap.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/overcloc/public_html/forums/global.php on line 15

Warning: require(./includes/class_bootstrap.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/overcloc/public_html/forums/global.php on line 15

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/class_bootstrap.php' (include_path='/home/overcloc/public_html:/home/overcloc/public_html/includes:/home/overcloc/public_html/languages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/overcloc/public_html/forums/global.php on line 15

I hope that sometime down the road soon we'll see a 4.0 native mod that will work however, this is an incredible mod. To support the production of a 4.0 mod I'm sending the author a donation right now. Lets all do it and see how soon we can get a 4.0 release.

[Goomzee]

there is no LocalSettings.php file in attachment

[Dekard]

Originally Posted by Goomzee

there is no LocalSettings.php file in attachment

Thats true. You should have a LocalSettings.php in the root of your mediawiki installation folder. You want to edit that file.

[bosal]

Does this mod import old users from mediaWiki ? I have a big wiki with many users and I can't loose them.

[Dekard]

No, it just replaces the MW login with the VB one. So, you'd have to import all your users to VB or get them to sign up there before you put this on the production site.

[bosal]

Is there a Impex for such a import ?

[Dekard]

I don't think there is an impex for that but there are other solutions. Google is your best friend on this one since those type of mods come and go depending on the version supported.

[BRotondi]

Perhaps it's the easiest way to simply match the UserIDs. How many users are you talking about?

Bruno

[RedFoxy]

I've troubles with vBulletin 3.8.4 Patch Level 1 and MediaWiki 1.15.1 http://www.softairmania.it/samwiki/i...ciale:Versione

After installation, when I try to edit or insert a new page I give n error about my brouser and and an error abut my browser accent support

[Big Kahuna]

Love this hack but want to upgrade Vbulletin to 4.

Is this addon compatible to the upgrade.