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

[Beor]

Hello

I have vb4 and use the modifications of post 115, on mediawiki access to enter login and is ok, appears the vb page with vblogin ok, but on the wiki not logged, i go to the forum and logged ok, but returns to wiki and not logged in.

What is the problem?

Thx

[Beor]

Hello

i resolved this on options vbulletin-----http & cookies-----path to save cookies (i have forum, i changed to / and works fine)

Thx

[SuperGLS]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

Confirmed, GREAT!

Add the red code after the existing black in "wiki\includes\AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php"

# INITIALIZE VBULLETIN SUBSYSTEM
if ( !defined( 'CWD' ) )
    define( 'CWD', ( VB_SYSTEM_PATH ) );

$oldcwd = getcwd();
chdir( VB_SYSTEM_PATH );
require_once( CWD . '/global.php');
require_once( CWD . '/includes/functions.php');
chdir($oldcwd);

1000 Thanks!
Bruno

Confirmed again. Working great with me on 4.0.0. Thanks guys!

[BRotondi]

Modifications

• For use with Wiki short-URLs you should remove this in product-mmog_wiki.xml (after installation in Plugin "MMOG Wiki: Online Location Hack"):

      <phpcode><![CDATA[if (strpos($userinfo['location'], ( $vbulletin->options['mmog_wiki_path'] . '/' )) !== false)

so you can use /w which will work with /w/... and /wiki/...

If checking for /w ist not enough, you could also use multiple

if (...) {$userinfo['activity'] = 'wiki';}

• For German platforms you may change the hardcoded english in product-mmog_wiki.xm:

$userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing Wiki';

Greetings, Bruno

[benjaminlwells]

I am about to apply this hack. I had a similar one before with Media wiki and PHPBB. I'm wonder though, do I need to have both VB and Media Wiki using the same database? Currently I have them on separate databases on the same server.

Ben

[BRotondi]

Different is o.k.

Bruno

[benjaminlwells]

So, I have installed it. This is trying to get it to work with vb4.01 btw, which seems to have worked for others.

The only thing that had me unsure was VB_SYSTEM_PATH. VB is install right in my rood dir of my domain. I tried a few things, got errors finding class_bootstrap.php so I spoke with my domain host, they suggested I just enter '/' since it's my rood dir. When I do that I get the following error:

Warning: require_once(///global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/web04/b1777/moo.benjaminlwells/alphanex/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php on line 254

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '///global.php' (include_path='/hermes/web04/b1777/moo.benjaminlwells/alphanex:/hermes/web04/b1777/moo.benjaminlwells/alphanex/includes:/hermes/web04/b1777/moo.benjaminlwells/alphanex/languages') in /hermes/web04/b1777/moo.benjaminlwells/alphanex/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php on line 254

Any Thoughts?

[BRotondi]

"." is the path for "this", perhaps this helps in some way... (try "/." or "./", don't remember it exactly yet)

[BRotondi]

And ... btw ... now a problem from myself: Wiki does not recognize the login any more... I'm always logged out but don't know, what could have been changed. Even if I reload an old backup it does not help...

Any ideas? Thanks!
Bruno

[benjaminlwells]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

"." is the path for "this", perhaps this helps in some way... (try "/." or "./", don't remember it exactly yet)

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately neither worked.