Can you help me with the integrated log in please.

Question

Have been trying for some time now to get my head around the integrated log in, but really am lost.

At the moment i can click 'log in' and it takes me to the other sites log in page, all well and good, but after logging in it does not re-direct back to Q2A.

I've tried two different locations for Q2A.

First: Both sites as sub domains so,www. profiles.mysite.com and www.q2a.mysite.com

If i use:

* Your QA site:        http://qa.mysite.com/
        * Your login page:     http://www.profiles.mysite.com/login
        * Your register page:  http://www.profiles.mysite.com/register
        * Your logout page:    http://www.profiles.mysite.com/logout

It does not redirect.

So then i tried a different location:

Main site www.profiles.mysite.com

And q2a in a subfolder, so: www.profiles.mysite.com/q2a

For this i used option 3 eg:

'login' => $relative_url_prefix.'../profiles/index.php?redirect='.urlencode('qa/'.$redirect_back_to_url),

But again it does not re-direct.

Not being so good with php, am i supposed to change anything in the above option 3? i.e. am i supposed to change 'relative_url' or .urlencode?

Your help would be most appreciated, sorry for not understanding code too well!

Answer 1

Hi there. The redirect has to actually be done by your login page, i.e. by reading the redirect parameter, and using it in a Location: HTTP header after the user logs in. It doesn't happen automatically just because the parameter is there. See qa_redirect_raw(...) in qa-base.php for how to implement a redirect.

Comments

Aha! Thanks for that, i'm slowly getting the hang of this! No doubt i'll have more questions later....cheers!

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could you explain what code you used I can't figure out the redirect.
I've got 'login' => '../index.php?title=Special:UserLogin?redirect=".urlencode("qa/".$redirect_back_to_url)',
what should I put instead of '$redirect_back_to_url'? thanks

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You need to understand whether the MediaWiki software can redirect after the user logs in, and how this parameter should be supplied to its login page.