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

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

Yeah I'm bummed too. I spent a whole freaking day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with retracing my steps over and over and over again. I've got VB3.7.4.patch 1 and MW 1.12.1 and after 9 hours don't have it working.

I really wish the original post would actually say that it won't work with MW1.13.1 in red bold. Sure could save a lot of people from wasting a whole day.

www.moparstyle.com/forums
www.moparstyle.com/wiki

There's a fix posted within the thread to get it working with 1.13.1 and it's posted two pages back.

[BRotondi]

I tried it, but it's not working 100% (see above)...
Bruno

1.13.2 / 3.7.4 SP1

[Jaxel]

I use VB 3.7.4.PL1 and MW 1.13.2 and everything is working fine...
(Follow this to get it working: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=98)

Also... you DONT need to edit class_core.php...
I found a different way as I really dont like editing VB core files...

In wiki/includes/User.php find:

PHP Code:

define( 'EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX', '+\\' ); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

define( 'EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX', '+#+' ); 


Thats it. http://www.8wayrun.com/wiki/Special:Version

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

I tried it, but it's not working 100% (see above)...
Bruno

1.13.2 / 3.7.4 SP1

Try downloading the file he fixed himself from two pages back. He uploaded a file where me made the edits himself and it works perfectly for me.

[Picolet]

http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWiki ? the wiki-system powering Wikipedia ? that helps to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While traditional wikis contain only texts which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that bring the power of the Semantic Web to the wiki. http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

[BRotondi]

I tried this already (last poste on Page 9)...

Bruno

[Jaxel]

What is all that extra stuff that Veridiac did to AuthPlugin_vbSSO.php? All I did is rename AutoAuthenticate to UserLoadFromSession and everything works fine. Why was all that extra stuff necessary?

[BRotondi]

What Versions do you use?

[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.

[BRotondi]

the class_core hacks are not necessary for login, only for "user count/where is the user" inside vB. For such a thing you need to edit the core...
Thanks for the information, I will try it again!

Bruno