Cozdabuch is planning to set up a Discourse board on a site with Single Sign-On (SSO) login, where the board will be embedded into the existing site behind a login screen. However, zogstrip notes that Discourse does not work in an iframe, so it cannot be embedded directly.
Instead, Discourse will need to be hosted on a subdomain. Cozdabuch asks if the Discourse app can login via SSO, pulling user data from the primary domain, in order to maintain usability. zogstrip confirms that this is possible with SSO, allowing users to log in and access the Discourse app seamlessly.
I’m looking at setting up a discourse board on a site where it would be embedded into the existing site. One tab in sites navbar would be discourse page. The site is entirely behind a login screen. Nothing is visible publicly.
I’d want to have the discourse install auto login and maintain user logins by main site.
That said, with a setup of this sort, will it be functional to use the discourse app for access, or would users need to login through the main site in a browser?
While SSO is the way to go to handle your authentication use case, be warned that Discourse does not work in an iframe so you won’t be able to embed it in another site.
OK so discourse will have to be hosted on a sub domain, fine. But is there a way in the Discourse app to login via SSO pulling from primary domain user data?
I just want to know if using SSO, it’s realistically possible to maintain discourse app usability?
Yes, that’s what SSO is for.