Single Sign-On in Box using Joomla IdP. Login into Box using Joomla, by configuring Box as SP and Joomla as SAML IDP .
If your users are stored in the Joomla database and if you want to login to your Box site/applications by using Joomla's user's credentials then you can use this setup guide to configure it.
Pre-requisites : Download And Installation
Steps for Integration of Joomla Single Sign-On (SSO) with Box as Service Provider
1. Configure Box as the Service Provider (SP)
- Log in to your Box account as Account Admin and navigate to Admin Console.
- In the left sidebar, click Enterprise Settings >> User Settings.
- Scroll down to the Configure Single Sign On (SSO) section, then click Configure.
- Go to Box SSO Questionnaire and provide the necessary information to setup Joomla as Identity Provider (IdP).
- Enter the Email Address and other required fields.
- Select Other with Metadata from who is your Identity Provider? dropdown.
- Enter the Company Box Subdomain field.
- Now choose and upload the Metadata File in the xml format which you have downloaded .
- Leave the optional fields empty and click on Submit.
- It can take up to 24 hours to process the metadata. Once the file has been processed, Box sends a notification to the email address of the main account admin.
- You can now enable SSO for your enterprise. Begin by enabling SSO Test Mode. In Test Mode, you can log in using SSO credentials. Also verify that you can log out and in again using SSO credentials before you continue.
- After you have tested that the SSO login flow is working correctly, you can enable SSO Required.
You have successfully configured Box as Service Provider.
2: Configuring Joomla as Identity Provider (IDP)
- Download SAML 2.0 IdP for Joomla from Here.
- Login to the administrator section of your Joomla 4 website :–
- From the dashboard of Joomla 4 site. Click on System to install the plugin
- Under System Install Extentions
.
- Drag and drop your miniorange-joomla-saml-idp.zip file in the area indicated in the image below or browse and select the file to install the plugin.
- Now go to Components miniOrange Joomla IDP Service Provider
- Under Service Provider tab and fill in the Service Provider Name, SP Entity ID or Issuer, ACS URL and NameID Format. You will get these details from the Service Provider that you are using. Fill in the other fields according to your requirements. Click on Save.
Enter the following values:
Service Provider Name |
Choose appropriate name according to your choice . |
SP Entity ID or Issuer |
Service Provider Entity ID . |
ACS URL |
SP Assertion Consumer Service URL . |
X.509 Certificate (optional)
[For Signed Request] |
Paste certificate value you copied from the Metadata file . |
NameID Format |
Select urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress. |
Assertion Signed |
Checked. |
- Click on NameID Attribute tab. Select the NameID Attribute and then click on Save Button.
Miniorange Joomla SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) supports multiple known SPs like Panopto, Lucid charts, Agylia LMS, Moodle, Inkling SP, Zendesk, Tableau, Owncloud, miniOrange Wordpress SAML SP, Drupal SAML SP, Workplace by Facebook, Salesforce, Zoho, Klipfolio and many more.
You have successfully completed your miniOrange SAML 2.0 IDP configurations. Still, if you are facing any difficulty please mail us on
joomlasupport@xecurify.com .
- Download SAML 2.0 IdP for Joomla from Here.

- Login to the administrator section of your Joomla website :–
[host]/[sitename]/administrator/index.php
- From the navigation menu on top go to Extensions Manage Install.

- Drag and drop your miniorange-joomla-saml-idp.zip file in the area indicated in the image below or browse and select the file to install the plugin.

- Go to Service Provider tab and fill in the Service Provider Name, SP Entity ID or Issuer, ACS URL and NameID Format. You will get these details from the Service Provider that you are using. Fill in the other fields according to your requirements. Click on Save.
Enter the following values:
Service Provider Name |
Choose appropriate name according to your choice . |
SP Entity ID or Issuer |
Service Provider Entity ID . |
ACS URL |
SP Assertion Consumer Service URL . |
X.509 Certificate (optional)
[For Signed Request] |
Paste certificate value you copied from the Metadata file . |
NameID Format |
Select urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress. |
Assertion Signed |
Checked. |
- Click on NameID Attribute tab. Select the NameID Attribute and then click on Save Button.
Miniorange Joomla SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) supports multiple known SPs like Panopto, Lucid charts, Agylia LMS, Moodle, Inkling SP, Zendesk,
Tableau, Owncloud, miniOrange WordPress SAML SP, Drupal SAML SP, Workplace by Facebook, Salesforce, Zoho, Klipfolio and many more.
You have successfully completed your miniOrange SAML 2.0 IDP configurations. Still, if you are facing any difficulty please mail us on
joomlasupport@xecurify.com .
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