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

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by bjhuang

does anyone have logout problem? i have to logout twice every session. for the first time, the logout link like /forum/login.php?do=logout... and it logged me out from forum but not wiki. after this, the logout link became like /wiki/index.php/special:logout ... then i'm completly logged out from wiki.

Same here, would be nice if the coder could resolve this bug.

[bjhuang]

my solution. i'm not 100% sure what i'm doing. but it works.

[OPEN]
includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php

[FIND]
	return true;
}

function vBLoginForm($template) {

[ADD ABOVE]
	else $user->logout();

[dutchbb]

Yeah it works, ty. My only problem left is, when logging in on the wiki, I get redirected to http://forum.mydomain.com/Mainpage instead of http://wiki.mydomain.com/Mainpage , resulting in a 404 error on the former url.

[NoeJeko]

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)

I have unchecked the "support" box as, many of you have seen, I'm far too busy to provide timely support for this.

[GoodOmens]

Originally Posted by NoeJeko

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)

I have unchecked the "support" box as, many of you have seen, I'm far too busy to provide timely support for this.

Thanks for the update!

[OneShot]

@Whoever can answer this : What steps do I have to undertake to get 2 Wikis to run in conjunction with just one vBulletin forum? BRotondi mentioned its possible, but sofar neither him nor anybody else as explained how to do this ...

Thanks in advance.

[NoeJeko]

While I haven't tested it - it should be as simple as installing them in two different paths (i.e. /path1/wiki /path2/wiki or /wiki1 and /wiki2). The plugin should work (note *should* being used in the theoretical sense here).

[proxx]

I just installed the latest version of mediawiki (1.14) on my vb 3.8.1

Followed all installation steps.

I get the following error on:
http://www.domain.com/wiki/?do=/wiki


Fatal error: Call to undefined method Language::factory() in /path/to/htdocs/wiki/includes/StubObject.php on line 122

Could someone help fix this pls.

[NoeJeko]

Hi Proxx,

The syntax "/wiki/?do=/wiki" is foreign to me. Could you provide a link to your wiki?

Also, I've created a 3.8 thread for this modification:

MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.8 thread[/b]

Please use this thread for vB 3.7 discussion and the other for vB 3.8 discussion. Thanks!

[BRotondi]

@OneShot:NoeJeko is right: Simply do the same on Wiki 2 that you did on Wiki 1. (I think I already told it...) so you will have 2 Wikis (or more...) with all the same users: The ones of ONE vBulletin.

@NoeJoko: 1000 Thanks for the Update!

Bruno