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

[raisun]

duh! thanks man

[Scan Cape Cod]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

Install FireBug > pick the element you want to change > Change it manually until it fits > find the code you have to change

Good luck!
Bruno

@Scan Cape Cod: Thanks for your version info! Nice to see, that it works also with 1.15!

Unfortunately my comment was both wrong and premature. I've been in the process of upgrading to vBulletin 4.0 and to the latest MediaWiki, 1.15.1. To get to 4.0 from 3.8.4 I uninstalled all of what were incompatible plug-ins from vBulletin. What I didn't do is remove the code from MediaWiki for this plug in. When I started to get the errors, making the correction as indicated by "apply" solved the errors I was getting when accessing MediaWiki.

I of course had to ultimately "uninstall" MMOG Wiki from MediaWiki by removing the added code. Prior to doing so, trying to edit a wiki page resulted in the "malformed" message mentioned earlier. So, I guess it probably does NOT work with 1.15.1.

My apologies if I misled you or anyone. It was the end of a long day and I wasn't thinking clearly when I made that post.

[BRotondi]

No problem

So I did the upgrade from 1.14 to 1.15 and can confirm myself, that it's working also with 1.15 - without any changes. Or let's say: Login is working as desired through vB, but I did not test the rest.

Have a nice sunday!
Bruno

[Quantnet]

What about the wiki skin? Are you able to use the same skin as the forum?

[chriske]

Does the mod work if my forum and wiki are on separate domains?

[MGP_Tech]

I'm not sure why but I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I've altered my LocalSettings file as many ways as I can think of (thinking that perhaps my path was wrong due to the fact that I have my domain name looking of "myworldofdarkness.com" looking to my url "http://madhatterrgames.com/vampire-larp" for my vbulletin root) but no dice.

My wiki is located at: http://myworldofdarkness.com/wiki
My vbulletin is installed at: http://myworldofdarkness.com/forum.php (I'm using vbadvanced on the index.php)

Both are located on my website at (real urls)
wiki - http://madhatterrgames.com/vampire-larp/wiki
vbulletin - http://madhatterrgames.com/vampire-larp/forum.php

I read that others had a similar issue and it was related to the .htaccess file
I don't have access to the other file mentioned (to be altered instead of .htaccess) so am I out of luck and can't use this hack?

Any help you could provide me with would grant you my eteranl thanks and virtual cookies. Mmmm!

Thanks in Advance for your help!

[MGP_Tech]

Okay,

so when I delete the .htaccess file I created, the wiki shows back up which tells me the error is probably in the .htaccess file...

So, if I don't have access to my php.ini file and the .htaccess addition is shutting down the wiki with a 500 Internal Server Error - are there any other options for me or am I up a creek?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Quantnet

What about the wiki skin? Are you able to use the same skin as the forum?

No, you need another mod to achieve that.

[ndahiya]

see this extension mod: Mediawiki Edits in Postbit & Profile

ndahiya

[dotted1337]

Originally Posted by apply

I recently upgraded to vB4 and my wiki started throwing errors caused by this mod. I found a workaround that I would like to share in case others face the same issue. I fixed the problem by changing path of "require('./includes/class_bootstrap.php')" at the beginning of vB4 global.php to the full path of the class_bootstrap.php.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=115