MediaWikiAuth

Custom MediaWiki module that authenticates against Litus.

Requierements

• A working Litus webserver with a working API.
• A MediaWiki installation, version 1.13+
• The domain of the wiki has to be a subdomain of the domain of the Litus server, or the same domain (e.g. if the Litus server is litus.cc, wiki.litus.cc or litus.cc/wiki will both work, lituswiki.cc won't)
• Optional: the PHP curl module (on ubuntu: install the php5-curl package)

Installation

You have to have mediawiki installed and configured. To use curl instead of the standard PHP http requests, make sure php5-curl (on ubuntu) is installed.

• Execute in a shell:

cd <path to your mediawiki folder>/extensions
git clone https://github.com/LitusProject/MediaWikiAuth.git LitusAuth

• Edit your LocalSettings.php:

  • Make sure that the $wgServer variable does not contain a protocol, e.g. //en.wikipedia.org instead of https://en.wikipedia.org.

  • Add somewhere at the bottom (Replace the $wgLitus* values with the real values for your Litus installation)

require_once($IP . '/extensions/LitusAuth/LitusAuthPlugin.php');

/* The Litus API Server to use for authentication, without trailing slash. */
$wgLitusAPIServer = 'https://litus.cc/api';

/* The API key */
$wgLitusAPIKey = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';

/* The Litus server itself, for the login link, without trailing slash! */
$wgLitusServer = 'https://litus.cc';

/* Required status to be allowed to log in */
$wgLitusRequiredStatus['anyone_can_enter'] = false;
$wgLitusRequiredStatus['university_status'] = false;
$wgLitusRequiredStatus['organization_status'] = false;
$wgLitusRequiredStatus['in_workinggroup_status'] = false;

/* The web page to redirect to if the user has an invalid status, false if not set. */
$wgLitusInvalidStatusRedirect = false;

/* The callback page for the login, returnto is de _default_ page to return to */
$wgLitusLoginCallback = array(
    'title' => 'Special:UserLogin',
    'returnto' => 'Main+Page'
);

/* The cookie to use for authentication */
$wgLitusAuthCookie = 'Litus_Auth_Session';

/* Allow the user with this user ID to login regardless of university and organization status */
$wgLitusAdminUserid = false;

License

Copyright 2012 The Litus Project and other contributors
<https://github.com/LitusProject>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
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