nopCommerce OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) with Okta as OAuth Provider

nopCommerce OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) module gives the ability to enable OAuth Single Sign-On for your nopCommerce store or site. Using Single Sign-On you can use only one password to access your nopCommerce store or site and services. Our module is compatible with all the OAuth-compliant identity providers. Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure Single Sign-On (SSO) between nopCommerce and Okta considering Okta as OAuth Provider.

Pre-requisites: Download and Installation

• Download the nopCommerce OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) module.
• To install the plugin, login as admin into your nopCommerce site or store. In the admin dashboard, navigate to Configuration Tab >> Local plugins.
• On the top right corner of the page select the Upload plugin or theme button to upload the downloaded plugin zip. Follow the instructions further to install the plugin.

Steps to configure nopCommerce OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) using Okta as Identity Provider

1. Configure Okta as IDP

• First of all, go to https://www.okta.com/login and log into your Okta account.
• Go to the Okta Admin panel. Go to Applications -> Applications.

• You will get the following screen. Click on Create App Integration button.

• Select sign in method as the OIDC - OpenID Connect option and select Application type as web application, click on Next button.

• You will be redirected to the app details page. Enter App integration name and Sign-in redirect URIs. you will get that from miniOrange nopCommerce OAuth Plugin

• Scroll down and you will see the Assignments section. Choose a controlled access option and uncheck the Enable immediate access with Federation Broker Mode option. Click on Save button.

• Now you will get the Client credentials and okta domain. Copy these credentials in miniorange nopCommerce OAuth Plugin configuration on corresponding fields.

• Go to Applications tab and Click on your application.

• Select the Assignments tab.

• Click Assign and select Assign to People.
• If you want to assign the application to multiple users at the same time then select Assign to Groups [If an app is assigned to a group then, the app will be assigned to all the people in that group]

• Click Assign next to a user name.

• Click Save and Go Back.

• Click Done.

• In your Okta admin dashboard, navigate to Security -> API.

• Select your SSO application and click on the edit icon.

• Go to claims tab and select the ID token option.

• click on Add claim button.

• Give a Name to your claim/attribute and Select ID Token from the token type dropdown. Now, enter the value user.$attribute in the Value field based on the attribute you want to receive. Keep other settings as default and click on Create button.

• Follow the similar steps for all the attributes you want to see. You will have a list similar to the below one.

You have successfully configured Okta as OAuth Server (identity provider) for achieving SSO login into your nopCommerce application.

2. Configure nopCommerce as SP

• Under the Configure OAuth/OIDC tab, select Okta from the list of identity providers shown below

• When you are done configuring your identity provider, you will get client ID, client secret and all required authentication endpoints.
• Copy the Redirect/Callback URL from the plugin and provide it to your identity provider to configure it on their side.
• Fill the rest acquired details into the corresponding fields shown below:
• Click on Save.
• Note: Please make sure the Enable SSO checkbox is ticked.

3. Testing OAuth SSO

• Click on Test Configuration to verify if you have configured the plugin correctly.
• On successful configuration, you will get attributes name and attribute values in the test configuration window.

4. Attribute Mapping

• Under Attribute/Role Mapping tab, map the attribute names provided by your identity provider with your nopcommerce store attributes.
• Click on Save button.

5. Adding SSO link for your nopCommerce store

• Under the Redirection & SSO Link tab, use the URL labelled as Your Store SSO Link in your store to initiate the SSO.

You can even configure the Umbraco SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) module with any identity provider such as ADFS, Azure AD, Bitium, centrify, G Suite, JBoss Keycloak, Okta, OneLogin, Salesforce, AWS Cognito, OpenAM, Oracle, PingFederate, PingOne, RSA SecureID, Shibboleth-2, Shibboleth-3, SimpleSAML, WSO2 or even with your own custom identity provider. To check other identity providers, click here.

Additional Resources

• nopCommerce OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Web3 Login & NFT Gating for nopCommerce Applications
• ASP.NET SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)
• ASP.NET OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO)
• DNN OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO)
• DNN REST API Authentication
• Kentico SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)