The Subrion CMS Vanilla Single Sign-On plugin allows administrators to add a Vanilla forums members integration.

Installation:

Please follow these instructions to setup single sing-on integration for your VanillaForums. Subrion does not cover VanillaForums integration in details, as this information could be found on their official website.

• Install VanillaForums on the same domain where you have your Subrion CMS installed.
• Install VanillaForums jsConnect plugin:
  http://vanillaforums.org/addon/jsconnect-plugin
• Open VanillaForums dashboard and click Plugins, edit the jsConnect plugin.
• Add a new connection as follows:
  1. Click Generate Client ID and Secret
  2. Site Name = whatever you wish
  3. Authenticate Url = (insert your full URL to subrion cms installation)/login/read.json
• Save Changes
• Go to Configuration and allow registration for SSO only.
• Install Subrion plugin VanillaForums Single Sign-On
• Go to Subrion Admin Panel -> Configuration -> Miscellaneous
• Find the section related to VanillaForums and insert the key & Secret you generated in VanillaForums dashboard, Save Changes
• Create a new page with External Content and place it in the menu. It should be a full URL to your forums homepage.