I’ve deployed a new Wordpress plugin that relies on Discourse’s SSO but I’ve got a strange bug that only effects the live deployment of the site. On local I can login and use the redirect_url parameter to get back to the page. However on the live site SSO only works if the redirect_url is the wp-ad…

I’m pretty confident that there is either a misconfigured reverse proxy or similar shenanigan at play here. Are you using cloudflare by any chance?

Yes it’s Cloudflare - are there any settings in Cloudflare we can test.

Haha, that’s not my decision, the site uses Cloudflare as a primary cache. I’ll have to do some research into reverse proxies and see if I can adjust any of the settings in CF

There are dozens of topics about problems caused by cloudflare’s optimizations. You could use couldflare as a CDN, and that would have discourse redirect only stuff that can be cached through cloudflare. You could also temporarily disable it and see whether that solves the problem.

Yes, this is a strange mixture of issues, partially down to the WP installation director it seems as well. I’ve written a work around for now that always redirects to /core/wp-admin then there’s a final ?final_redirect_url that my own hook picks up and actions to take us back to where we want to be. …

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Discourse SSO with Wordpress Only Works with /core/wp-admin URL

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) April 15, 2020, 4:56pm 7

Simply disable cloudflare “performance” and “rocket loader” on discourse through page rules that should most probably fix it for you

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