Extension talk:XenForoAuth

FYI: This extension breaks using [bd] API versions >1.5.1

It seems there are additional permissions added to the /users API endpoint in versions >1.5.1 that cause the authorization flow to fail. Formina Sage (talk) 02:36, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Just ran into this also, anyone have a workaround / solution? BD API 1.6.1 is required for PHP 7.2 Tiggleshorts (talk) 15:16, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

What is the exact error message you get? And what additional permissions you've in mind? Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 23:11, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

This is the message I get when clicking "Login with Xenforo" using the latest version (1.6.1) of [bd] API:

The external site refused to authenticate you or encountered an error. Please try it again or contact the administrator of the site. The message was:

On the [bd] API discussion page I saw another user post with these details:

GET /api/index.php?users/me

Request

array(0) {

}

Response (403)

array(1) {

["error"] => string(34) "You must be a logged-in, registered member of this site to perform this action. "

} Tiggleshorts (talk) 13:51, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

It would seem that "users/me" doesn't behave the same in 1.6.x as it did in 1.5.x. Forum posts on th haven't been responded to, sadly. TheRealFunar (talk) 20:03, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

@Florianschmidtwelzow is there any update on a fix? 96.234.163.212 (talk) 02:16, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for not replying earlier :( Unfortunately I do not plan to maintain this extension anymore. I do not have any usage of this extension anymore, neither have I any way to test the actual implementation (as I do not own a XenForo installation). So, until anyone want to take over the maintenance of his extension, it is unmaintained and should not be used anymore :( Best, Florian Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 14:39, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

@Tiggleshorts @TheRealFunar Good news - with [bd] API 2.0.1 beta (I'm running the latest Xenforo 2.1.5), this is working properly again. The client setup is slightly different, but otherwise everything works as expected.

https://xfrocks.com/resources/bd-api-for-xenforo-2-0.36/ Formina Sage (talk) 07:48, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

@Formina Sage Excellent news, I'm just working on moving to Xenforo 2.1 now. I will check it out, thank you!! Tiggleshorts (talk) 17:42, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

@Formina Sage I think I have it set up properly with Xenforo 2.1.6, MediaWiki 1.34.0 and [bd] API 2.0.1 Beta 1 but am seeing this error when clicking the 'login with Xenforo' button. Did your run into this?

Error from line 321 of .../extensions/XenForoAuth/includes/auth/XenForoPrimaryAuthenticationProvider.php: Class 'XenForoBDClient\Clients\OAuth2Client' not found Tiggleshorts (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Update: I got it working by: 1. running composer update in the extensions/XenForoAuth/ directory (didn't see this in the directions) which added the missing files. 2. running maintenance/update.php again 3. turning off basic auth I had on my test site. Looking good! Tiggleshorts (talk) 02:07, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Triggleshorts, I managed to get to the point you were at but can't run composer. What is actually missing? 2A02:C7E:4929:9500:159F:4C2E:BFFC:AC62 (talk) 00:10, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

I have everything setup but not having any luck, Not sure what to set for

$wgXenForoAuthClientId = '';

Going round in circles and the error logs in Xenforo keep showing not matter what I do.

array:1 [

"errors" => array:1 [
0 => "requested_page_not_found"
]

] SyrinxCat (talk) 16:51, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

@SyrinxCat Sorry I didn't see the previous message, were you able to get it working?

I just upgraded to the latest MediaWiki v1.39.1 and I did not run into any issues, still working fine. Tiggleshorts (talk) 23:34, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

@Tiggleshorts. No problem. I did eventually get it working yes. Took some messing about but got there in the end :) SyrinxCat (talk) 23:42, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Awesome! Tiggleshorts (talk) 00:59, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Confirm Email option Problem

So on our wiki this is working fine, however, we also want people to be able to register a normal wiki account and not a Xenforo account if they so choose.

Annoyingly, if you have $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; set for emails, it stops Xenforo users being able to edit.

Had anyone got a solution for this? SyrinxCat (talk) 01:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

In my case I prefer to have a single login so have just used XenForo, but the usage of the wiki has been small. Sorry, haven't checked that option out. Tiggleshorts (talk) 14:45, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

v1.43 compatability

I updated to the latest MediaWiki release v1.43.0 and downloaded the latest version of the extension. Was getting an error in includes/XenForoUser.php related to "IDBAccess".

Fixed by adding to the file includes/XenForoUser.php

use Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDBAccessObject; DavidTseng (talk) 03:12, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Just a note - I've moved from bd-api / XenForoAuth to XenForo's oauth2 client / WSOAuth / PluggableAuth. Kirby provided the custom XenForo AuthenticationProvider and instructions in this thread:

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-oauth-troubleshooting-help-needed-mediawiki.230291/ Tiggleshorts (talk) 16:10, 8 November 2025 (UTC)