I'm trying to setup external authentication with MediaWiki. I've gone over
http://wiki.case.edu/CaseWiki:External_Authentication time and time again
but it's not exactly clear.
Here's how our company authentication for web access works.
- I check to see if a cookie exists. If so, decrypt it and get user info.
- If cookie doesn't exist, redirect to the company authentication URL. In
that redirect, I specify a "return to" URL so after the user authenticates,
it knows where to send the user back to.
- Go back to first step. Since the cookie should now exist, I have user
info.
I figured I would use mod_rewrite in .htaccess to redirect
index.php?title=Special:UserLogin to say index2.php. index2.php would get
the cookie and be the return point for the redirection if needed. But now
that index2.php has the user info, I need it to login, creating the userid
if needed, to mediawiki. This is where I'm totally lost. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!