Wordpress SAML Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication method that enables Wordpress users to access multiple Joomla applications with one login and one set of credentials.

Our plugin is compatible with Joomla 4 as well as 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 Joomla site and Wordpress by considering Wordpress as IdP (Identity Provider & Joomla as SP (Service Provider).

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Steps to Integrate Wordpress Single Sign-On (SSO) with Joomla SAML SP

1. Configure Wordpress as IdP

• Go to your admin account of Wordpress and from left menu click on plugins.
• From plugin tab click on Add New button

• From the search bar, search SAML IDP plugin of miniorange, and click on Install now button of login using wordpress users (WP as IDP) plugin.

• Go to Wordpress IDP plugin dashboard and go to IDP metadata tab to configure Joomla SAML SP .

• Save the details of wordpress as IDP from IDP metadata tab

• Now, go to the Service Provider tab and manually enter the Service Provider details or click the Upload SP Metadata button.
  • Details enter manually by:-

  SP Entity ID or Issuer :	Enter SP-EntityID/Issuer from the Service Provider Metadata tab of the Joomla SAML SP plugin.
  ACS URL :	Enter ACS (Assertion Consumer Service) URL from the Service Provider Metadata tab of the Joomla SAML SP plugin.
  Single Logout URL (optional)	Enter Single Logout URL from the Service Provider Metadata tab of the Joomla SAML SP plugin.
  X.509 Certificate (optional):	Enter X.509 Certificate from the Service Provider Metadata tab of the Joomla SAML SP plugin.
  NameID format :	urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified

  • By SP metadata URL :-
    • Click on Upload SP Metadata button
    
    • Enter the Service Provider Name and enter the URL of SP metadata, then click on Fetch Metadata button.
    
• Once the details getting fetched then click on Test Configuration button.

2. Configure Joomla as Service Provider

In Joomla SAML plugin, go to Service Provider Setup Tab. There are three ways to configure the plugin:

 By Metadata URL :

• Click on Upload IDP Metadata.

• Enter Metadata URL (Copy from IDP app) and click on Fetch Metadata.


 By Uploading Metadata File:

• Click on choose metadata file and click on Upload.


 Manual Configuration :

• 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.
  

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




• Click on Test Configuration.

3. 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)
  Group/Role:	Name of the Role attribute from Identity Provider(IdP)


• You can check the Test Configuration Results under Service Provider Setup tab to get a better idea of which values to map here.
• You can refer the following video for Attribute Mapping.

4. Group Mapping - Premium Feature (Included with Business Trial)

• Role mapping helps you to assign specific roles to users of a certain group in your Identity Provider (IdP).
• While auto registering, the users are assigned roles based on the group they are mapped to.
• You can refer the following video for Group Mapping.

5. Redirection & SSO Links

• 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 .

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Additional Resources.

• What is Single Sign-On (SSO)
• How to configure SSO with Okta
• How to configure SSO with Google Apps
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Miniorange Joomla SAML Single sign-on(web SSO) supports multiple known IDPs like WSO2, Azure AD, Salesforce,
Shibboleth, Onelogin, Okta, SimpleSamlPhp, Google apps, Bitium, OpenAM, miniorange IDP, Centrify and many more.

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