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

[BRotondi]

On my Firefox Shift-F5 and F5 has no effect...

So I started MSIE. But why do I have login which points to the wiki-login instead the vb-Login?

[NoeJeko]

Not <Shift+F5> - <Ctrl+F5> (The control key)

Also, I'm not quite sure why but I'm out of time to troubleshoot it with you for now. In the meantime, you can make this modification to Userlogin.php to make it work until I can figure it out:

Find this line:

PHP Code:

$redirlink = '?url=' . $vbsso_wikipath . '/index.php/' . $returnNS; 


Replace it with this:

PHP Code:

$redirlink = '?url=/wiki/index.php/' . $returnNS; 


Please note, this only applies to BRotondi's case; I will update the code later tonight so that this works for all installations.

After you've made this change, please clear your browser's cache (Usually in privacy settings) because MediaWiki likes to cache pages until the end of time, heh...

[BRotondi]

1001 Thanks. For me it fine also - and I have 00:55 AM here...

Good Night to all!
Bruno

[BRotondi]

just checked your http://www.mymmogames.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -> Same Problem! ... will have a look after slleping

1001 Thanks again and a last good night!
Bruno

[NoeJeko]

That's really odd - from my browser both your and my site are working properly...

[BRotondi]

Good Morning!

Simple cache functions: First in the bed, first out of the bed

a) Perhaps we missunderstand each other: Your Wiki-Login works (wiki form ist shown but vb-login executed) and so does mine.
It irritated me to see a wiki-login, but I think it's the best solution to leave this that way since the wiki-login will be executed only in exception cases.

b) I put back the userlogin.php without your special edit for BRotondi's case... and get an error again: If I use the wiki-login I get the vB-confirm but then instead of the mainbage the followin error follows:

http://www.sinnimleben.net/index.php/Hauptseite not found
=> Same error we had with the forum: /wiki is missing

Bruno

[BRotondi]

=> b) does not happen now, because I put back the Userlogin.php to your special customization for me, but if you want to solve this problem for all users, ... be my guest
(perhaps the same bug you had to solve earlier for /forum, but this time for /wiki)

For me all is fine now. Thanks!
As little welcome for you I made some minor changes in your readme to help first-hacking people like me - hope you enyoj it!

Hope also also my customized BB-Code with the Button is interesting for you. ... it should, since this way it's very easy to link to the wiki.

Bruno

[BRotondi]

what we allso will have to do: The Sign in has buggy parts and no Register-Link Register:

<loginstart>
Anmelden
cow
Um sich bei Wiki SinnImLeben.net anmelden zu k?nnen, m?ssen Cookies aktiviert sein.

Bruno

[NoeJeko]

I'll work on those - I want to get the path settings into the ACP so people aren't having to alter the files manually. There will be a new version of this coming soon.

[BRotondi]

online too (Thanks for your work!)

Bruno