MediaWiki and Apache Authentication Integration

I looked at Raskas' blog and saw how he did it and applied the similar idea to MediaWiki 1.9.1 to make it work with Apache authentication mechanism. It takes only 2 steps:

1- Edit LocalSettings.php and append the following right before the php section ends with "?>"

# Apache::mod_auth integration
require_once('extensions/Auth_remoteuser.php');
$wgAuth = new Auth_remoteuser();

# Disable anonymous edits
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

2- Download the following file: Auth_remoteuser.php.txt, rename it to "Auth_remoteuser.php" and put it in the following directory "extensions".

That's it!

 

Comments

[alan]

Hi! this looks very useful, but your link to the php file is broken. Can you check that?

[sbulut]

The link should be working again.

[Simson]

Do you know about this error?

Fatal error: Call to private method User::loadFromSession() from context '' in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/common/extensions/Auth_remoteuser.php on line 57

[Carl]

How about user names with an underscore in them? We are using the apache integration to an ldap server. The username in the ldap server are the individual's email addresses. I have a couple of people with underscores in their email addresses.

This is breaking media wiki. They can authenticate but mediawiki says they are not logged in.

Please help.