Laravel OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin gives the ability to enable OAuth Single Sign-On for your laravel applications. Using Single Sign-On you can use only one password to access your laravel application and services. Our plugin 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 Laravel and Okta considering Okta as OAuth provider. To know more about other features we provide in Laravel OAuth client single sign-on SSO plugin, you can click here.

Installation Laravel Oauth Client

• Open a Command Prompt window and change the working directory to your Laravel app's main directory.
• Enter the below command.

  composer require miniorange/oauth-laravel-free

• After successful installation of package, go to your Laravel app in the browser and enter {laravel-application-domain}/mo_oauth_admin
• The package will start setting up your database for you and then redirect you to the admin registration page.
• Register or log in with your miniOrange account to configure the plugin.

• After login, you will see the OAuth provider Settings option, where you will get the Redirect/Callback URL. Keep it handy as it will be required later to configure Okta Single Sign-On SSO plugin.

Steps to configure Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) Login into Laravel

1. Configure Okta as OAuth Provider

• Go to Okta developers console Click Here and sign up/Login with your Okta developer account.
• Go to Applications tab in the left panel and then click on Applications.
• click on Create App integration to create a new application.

• Select OIDC - OpenID Connect after that select application type as a Web Application then click now next.

• In General Settings tab, enter App Name and required detials and enter callback url in Sign-in redirect URIs and click on save.

• Copy the Client ID and Client Secret from general tab and save it on your laravel OAuth plugin Configuration.

• After that, Navigate to the application you created and click on the Assignments Tab in Okta.
• Click on Assign button to Assign People and Assign Groups.

• Once you Assign the user, click on Done button.

2. Configure Laravel OAuth client plugin for Okta

• Go to the miniOrange Laravel OAuth SSO plugin and click on Choose okta as OAuth provider.

• Enter the Client ID and Client Secret from Okta App.

• Configuring the Scope as openid and enter Domain name copy from Okta app profile.

Note : Add http:// or https:// in domain name.

• You can send the client credentials in header and also send state parameter accordingly also enter login attribute as per your requirement.

• Click on save settings button. After that, Click on test configuration button. you will get the list of Attribute Names and Attribute Values that are sent by your OAuth provider

3. SSO Options

• You can also use a link to login via your OAuth/OpenID provider.
• This link is in the format:

  {laravel-application-domain}/ssologin.php?option=oauthredirect

4. Support / Demo

• Support and Trial/Demo Request tabs are available for customers to reach out to for demos and support.

In this Guide, you have successfully configured Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) using Laravel as OAuth Client. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to your Laravel site using Okta login credentials within minutes.

Additional Resources

• Guide For Single Sign On (SSO)
• Laravel Installation