WP Multisite mit mehreren Discourse-Instanzen

[Genyus (Gary McPherson)]

Hey Angus!

@angus

I understand where you’re coming from, but Discourse is not intended to be used purely for authentication purposes. I would suggest you spend some time considering a dedicated auth service which you connect to your various Discourse and Wordpress instances. A bit of investment in research now can pay off down the ine.

Yes, I do recognise Discourse isn’t a pure auth service. We’re considering three potential options:

• Using Discourse as our identity provider
• Using WordPress as our identity provider
• Using an external (SaaS or self-hosted) identity provider

Each of these presents different implications for cost, complexity and UX that we’re seeking to evaluate, hence my questions here.

@angus

I know the thought of setting up an entirely seperate staging environment for an interconnected web of servers may seem laborious, but the labor involved in that is alot less than trying to work through unforseen issues that arise once you’ve launched something like this.

No, you’re 100% correct, it is complex and we wouldn’t dream of deploying this without testing on a staging environment first. Thanks so much for the explainer, much appreciated!