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Disqus Single Sign On Prework¶
For Single Sign On, you need to do 2 things on the Disqus Page.
Requesting Single Sign On Access¶
Disqus does'nt provide Single Sign On per default on every Registred Account. However they allow you torequest Single Sign On for your Disqus Website. http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/236206-integrating- single-sign-on
Simply fill this Contact Form and Request a Disqus Single Sign On, for your Forum: http://disqus.com/support/?article=Getting%20Started%20with%20Single %20Sign-On
Create an API Application for your Single Sign On¶
Once you have the Single Sign On Access (they answer your request), you can start Creating an Application. With an API Application, you simply tell Disqus that you want to have Access to the Commenting System with their API.
This sounds terrible Technical but its just a bit of Configuration.
First you need to go to this Page: http://disqus.com/api/sso/ Here you can Configure your Remote Domain for Disqus SSO.The Domain is like the Namespace for the SSO to work with, simply fill the informations according to your Website.
Second you need to Configure your Application: http://disqus.com/api/applications/ Register a new Application and save it.The Applications tab will eventually tell you that you need to Configure a trusted Domain for a public key.In this case Click on the Title again, and reconfigure it (settings).Important Settings are:
Settings¶
Authentication¶
Default Access: Read, Write and Manage Forums
Filling in the Informations should be overall self explainatory. Once you configured the Application and Saved it, you will see your Secret Key and Public Key in the Applications Tab.
Those Keys are used to allow the Extension access to your Disqus Application.