SAML Single Sign-On into Joomla using Google Apps | Google Apps SSO | Login using Google Apps
miniOrange Joomla SAML SP SSO plugin helps you to integrate your Joomla site to Google apps using SAML 2.0 protocol. The miniOrange Joomla SAML SP Single Sign-on (SSO) plugin is simple to set up Google apps SSO into Joomla and enable secure login into Joomla. As a result, users can access multiple Joomla applications with one login after authenticating with their Google apps IDP credentials.
Our plugin is compatible with Joomla 3 as well as Joomla 4 with all the SAML 2.0 compliant Identity Providers. Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure SAML SSO login between the Joomla site and Google apps by considering Google apps as IDP (Identity Provider) & Joomla as SP (Service Provider).
What is SSO ?
Your SP then sends a SAML request to IDP when a user attempts to log in. Upon IDP authentication, it sends SAML assertions to the SP that provide information about the user. The assertion is received by SP, which then verifies it in accordance with the Identity Provider configuration and grants the user access to your Joomla website.
Pre-requisites : Download And Installation
Joomla SAML Handbook
This detailed Handbook for the Joomla SAML SP Single Sign On plugin gives an in-depth explanation of the features of the plugin.
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Steps to Integrate Google apps Single Sign-On (SSO) with Joomla SAML SP
1. Download and setup Joomla SAML SP Plugin
- Download the zip file for the miniOrange SAML SP plugin for Joomla from the link here.
- Login into your Joomla site’s Administrator console.
- From left toggle menu, click on System, then under Install section click on Extensions.
- Here click on Browse for file button to locate and install the plugin file downloaded earlier.
- Once Installation of plugin is successful. Now click on Start Using miniOrange SAML SP plugin.
2. Configure Google Apps/ G Suite as IDP
- Go to https://admin.google.com and login to your Google Apps Administrator account.
- On the Admin Home, From left menu bar click on Apps -> Overview.
- In the Apps, select Web and mobile apps.
- Click on Add App then click on Add custom SAML app.
- Enter the Application details and then click on CONTINUE .
- Then under Google Identity Provider details tab you will get metadata of Google apps. Click on Download Metadata button. Then click on CONTINUE .
- Configure the following things on Service provider details tab and then click on CONTINUE.
ACS URL ACS (Assertion Consumer Service) URL from the plugin under Service Provider Metadata Tab. Entity ID SP-EntityID / Issuer from the plugin under Service Provider Metadata Tab. Signed Response Checked Name ID Select Basic Information from the first dropdown. Then Primary Email from the second dropdown. - Select attributes by clicking on ADD MAPPING button. Then click on Finish button.
- Click on User access to change the Service status.
- Change the Service status to ON for everyone . Then click on SAVE button.
3. Configure Google Apps / G Suite Identity Provider with Joomla SAML Service Provider
In Joomla SAML plugin, go to Service Provider Setup Tab. There are three ways to configure the plugin:
- Click on Upload IDP Metadata.
- Enter Metadata URL (Copied from Google Apps) and click on Fetch Metadata.
- Click on choose metadata file and click on Upload.
- Copy SAML Entity ID, SAML Single-Sign-On Endpoint URL and X.509 certificate from
Federation Metadata document and paste it in Idp Entity ID or Issuer, Single Sign-on Service
URL, X.509 Certificate fields respectively in the plugin.
- Click on Test Configuration.
- Congratulaions we have successfully configured Joomla SAML Service Provider with Google Apps as Identity Provider.
By Metadata URL :
By Uploading Metadata
File:
Manual Configuration :
| Idp Entity ID or Issuer | SAML Entity ID in the Federation Metadata document |
| Single Sign-On Service URL | SAML Single-Sign-On Endpoint URL in the Federation Metadata document |
| X.509 Certificate | X.509 Certificate in the Federation Metadata document |
4. Attribute Mapping - Premium Feature (Included with Business Trial)
- Attributes are user details that are stored in your Identity Provider.
- Attribute Mapping helps you to get user attributes from your Identity Provider (IDP) and map them to Joomla user attributes like firstname, lastname etc.
- While auto registering the users in your Joomla site these attributes will automatically get mapped to your Joomla user details.
- In Joomla SAML plugin, go to Attribute Mapping tab and fill in all the fields.
Username: Name of the username attribute from IDP (Keep NameID by default) Email: Name of the email attribute from IDP (Keep NameID by default) First Name: Name of the first name attribute from IDP Last Name: Name of the last name attribute from IDP - You can check the Test Configuration Results under Service Provider Setup tab to get a better idea of which values to map here.
5. Group Mapping- Premium Feature (Included with Business Trial)
- Group mapping helps you to assign specific Group to users of a certain group in your Identity Provider (IDP).
- While auto registering, the users are assigned Group based on the group they are mapped to.
6. Redirection & SSO Links- Premium Feature (Included with Business Trial)
- Go to Login Settings tab. There are multiple features availabe in this tab like Auto redirect the user to Identity Provider and Enable Backed Login for Super Users. To use these features, click on the respective checkboxes.
You have successfully completed your miniOrange SAML 2.0 SP configurations. Still, if you are facing any difficulty please mail us on joomlasupport@xecurify.com .
Additional Resources.
- What is Single Sign-On (SSO)
- How to configure SSO with ADFS
- How to configure SSO with Salesforce
- How to configure SSO with Okta
miniorange Joomla SAML Single sign-on(web SSO) supports multiple known IDPs like ADFS, Azure AD, Salesforce,
Shibboleth, Onelogin, Okta,
SimpleSamlPhp, Google apps, Bitium, OpenAM, miniorange IDP, Centrify and many more.
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