Using OpenID with MediaWiki

From X-Plugins

• OpenID extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

• SVN root: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/OpenID/
  • Check the contents to get the latest version.

• $wgTrustRoot wanted to be "http://x-plugins.com/" or "http://x-plugins.com/w/" to work.
  • pip.verisignlabs feedback was something like "BAD REQUEST"
  • myopenid.net feedback was far more verbose and explained what the problem was. Recommended for debugging.

• Place the Admin folder from the PHP OpenID library archive into the root folder of Media Wiki, eg: /w/

• A new OpenID Wiki-User account can be updated to point to an old user id. The SQL is: update user_openid set uoi_user=X;
  • The SQL to lookup the old Wiki-User ID number is: select user_id,user_name from user where user_name='Indi-';
  • Use the value from the user.user_id field to update the value of user_openid.uoi_user

mysql> select user_id,user_name from user where user_name='Indi-';
+---------+-----------+
| user_id | user_name |
+---------+-----------+
|       2 | Indi-     | 
+---------+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)