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

[Lionel]

For those who can't logout from the wiki, make sure you add that line LocalSettings.php as instructed

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

[Pip]

I had this problem:
- Login / Logut worked fine
- Users appeared correctly in the "Who is online list"
- When a user edited an wiki article it was edited by "#IP Address" and not by the user
- The user didn't appear as loged in on the wiki

Then I applied to this:

Originally Posted by trackpedia

//$wgHooks['AutoAuthenticate'][] = 'vBSSOAutoAuth';
$wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] = 'vBSSOAutoAuth';

and it's fixed.

Thanks for that Integration!

[FunkyDiver]

Originally Posted by obsidian

- 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

Got mine working using that... VB 3.7.4 PL1 and MW 1.13.3

[kapoor22]

Any idea if 'MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On' would work with vBulletin 3.6.8? Your input is very much appreciated.

[Dexter_kcd]

Originally Posted by kapoor22

Any idea if 'MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On' would work with vBulletin 3.6.8? Your input is very much appreciated.

The specs above say it was tested on 3.6.9, and I don't think there was anything significantly changed in the user authorization between 3.6.8 and 3.6.9. I would speculate that it would work for you.

Dexter...

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

Versions?

Using latest MediaWiki as I downloaded it a few days ago, and using VB 3.7.4

[Rev O]

Does this Mod only work on a clean install of Mediawiki, or can it be used with a Mediawiki that already has registered users made prior to the 'single sign on' integration?

Thanks for your input.

[Varsh]

MediaWiki would still work but the problem is that there would be conflictions with the user databases.

[Rev O]

Darn.

What if all of the usernames on the wiki were changed before integration, so that they weren't the same as forum usernames, would there still be a conflict?

Thanks for your help btw.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by GoodOmens

Ok a new bug popped up recently:

Users can no longer edit ANYTHING. I get the following error:

If I remove the plugin everything works fine.

No changes have been made by me so I'm really scratching my head on this one.

Only thing I can think of is changes in latest vbulletin.

I'm getting the same error message now as GoodOmens did, but I recently just redid the edits to my class_core.php file because of a sign-in problem we were having. I fixed the sign-in problem, but not sure what the posting error would be.