Extension talk:OpenID/LQT Archive 1

I removed links to two sites that use the shitty old MW patch. It only works for MW 1.4.x, it's invasive, and it breaks your user database. Don't use it! --207.134.56.158 14:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

The mentioned OpenID http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Evan does not seem to work. E.g. jyte.com says "Unable to find your OpenID server" and I could not find any openid related meta data on the page 83.135.213.203 00:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think there's a good reason for you to be trying to log in to sites with my OpenID. However, I switched all my Wikitravel accounts to use OpenID, so that user page is no longer a valid OpenID. -- wikitravel:User:Evan 00:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I am using Mediawiki 1.9.3. I created the table for OpenID in the database and added the require_once line to LocalSettings.php. I don't see the OpenID login page on SpecialPages. Two questions: 1. I changed $wgMainCacheType=CACHE_NOTHING to CACHE_ANYTHING. Is that okay? 2. Which of the configuration changes are required?


 * The OpenID login page won't show up in Specialpages. Just go to it directly, Special:OpenID. Eventually you should put a link to that in your MediaWiki:Loginprompt. 1. I don't know, but I think it should. 2. None of them are required, but I think it won't work very well unless you set the trust root correctly. Also, if you deny by default nobody can log into your server, so read the documentation about the Allow/Deny stuff, then set deny-by-default to false. --wikitravel:User:Evan 00:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Possible issue in 1.9: Whenever someone tries to view the page of a non-OpenID user, that page will error out into "Internal_error.html". I can stop this from happening by commenting out the code block in OpenID.php related to providing the X-XRDS header and meta tags.

else { $wgOut->addLink(array('rel' => 'openid.server', 'href' => OpenIDServerUrl)); $rt = Title::makeTitle(NS_SPECIAL, 'OpenIDXRDS/'.$user->getName); $wgOut->addMeta('http:X-XRDS-Location', $rt->getFullURL); header('X-XRDS-Location', $rt->getFullURL); }

But I'm not familiar with what exactly is causing the error; I do know it wasn't an issue with 1.8.whatever. Since I don't need to provide OpenID server capabilities, I have just commented it out, but I thought I'd put the issue here in case anyone runs into the same problem or knows how to fix it.

--74.60.50.82 22:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I had the same error as this user (I'm running 1.9.3), but I haven't managed to get OpenID working regardless, so I don't know what's going on. Commenting out this block did indeed stop the '500' errors that occurred when I tried to view my own userpage! No problem on user talk pages, or even IP pages I think. pfctdayelise 15:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I think the problem is that the PHP function header call is invalid. I'm not a PHP programmer, I admit, but I read the manual and it says that the second argument is supposed to be "true" or "false" (or not present). I think the proper invocation of this line is: header('X-XRDS-Location: ' . $rt->getFullURL); I replaced the failing code with that line and it's no longer failing. Admittedly, it's not a great test since I'm having some other issue with the server functionality and I'm not able to do a complete successful login, but it does seem to cure the immediate problem.

Fatal error: Class 'Services_Yadis_ManagerLoader' not found in .../pear/php/Auth/OpenID/Consumer.php on line 307
line 307: $loader = new Services_Yadis_ManagerLoader;

According to this Services_Yadis_ManagerLoader is located in /Services/Yadis/Manager.php (line 199). But this Services_Yadis_ManagerLoader is not defined in my Manager.php, at least.

which version of this package was this extension successfully used with? pfctdayelise 12:15, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * OK evidently installing OpenID and installing Yadis is NOT the same as installing Yadis through OpenID. wtf.

./pear install --alldeps -f http://www.openidenabled.com/resources/downloads/php-openid/pear/Auth_OpenID-1.2.2.tgz I re-installed OpenID and it seemed to update the files properly. Now I'm back to the errors without any detail whatsoever, yay... :/ --pfctdayelise 12:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Sample settings
require_once("extensions/OpenID/OpenID.php"); $wgOpenIDConsumerDenyByDefault = false; $wgTrustRoot = ...; $wgOpenIDConsumerStoreType = "file"; $wgOpenIDConsumerStorePath = "extensions/OpenID/consumerstore";

the Path variables create a bunch of files under that directory, so don't call them "consumerstore.txt" like I first did. ;)

Some more info about the file vs memc option would be useful... --pfctdayelise 13:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Usernames with slashes
Signing up via special:userlogin, usernames aren't allowed to have slashes ("/"). It seems OpenIDLogin needs to allow them too. While testing my setup I tried putting in the OpenID URL for the username (which happened to be "getopenid.com/username". And uh, it caused the wiki to break on line 495 in Consumer.php: $user->addToDatabase;

So I guess the user suggested names need to be escaped somehow to avoid this. pfctdayelise 14:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Openidlogininstructions
This accepts HTML but not wikitext. It should accept wikitext too. pfctdayelise 14:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Bad OpenID mode
I had the OpenID extension running in MW 1.6.5, but since upgrading to 1.9.3 I've been unable to log in. I am redirected to my OpenID provider (in this case myopenid.com) correctly, but I get the message:

This request had a bad OpenID mode. The requested mode was p.Use your browser's back button to return to the requesting site and inform them of this problem.

The debug log does not show anything helpful. Has anybody encountered this before? Anybody know what's up? Thanks for any advise. JacobPappe 18:18, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm, this seems to have resolved itself. I think some of my OpenID settings had been commented out. JacobPappe 21:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

OpenID accounts not appearing in Newuserlog
Accounts create via OpenID login don't seem to appear in the log, when using Newuserlog. I'm not sure which extension needs to be updated OpenID or Newuserlog - anybody have an idea? Jclerner 16:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

SpecialOpenIDLogin.php
So I've installed the OpenID extension following the instructions, but now I get a warning about a missing file (includes/SpecialOpenIDLogin.php) whenever I try to access the login page. I've looked for the file everywhere and I can't find it. Thanks in advance for help on this!