Rob Boek » OpenID http://robboek.com Tue, 17 May 2011 20:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Use Your Google Account as an OpenID Provider for Your Blog http://robboek.com/2008/12/30/use-your-google-account-as-an-openid-provider-for-your-blog/ http://robboek.com/2008/12/30/use-your-google-account-as-an-openid-provider-for-your-blog/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:20:34 +0000 Rob Boek http://robboek.com/2008/12/30/use-your-google-account-as-an-openid-provider-for-your-blog/

I’m running a self-hosted WordPress 2.7 blog on a GoDaddy.com IIS7 hosting plan. Today I was trying to setup my blog as an OpenID provider so I could use it to login to OpenID enabled sites like stackoverflow.

My first attempt was to use the WordPress OpenID plugin. Beside the fact that I couldn’t get it working, the plugin was really overkill for my needs. Since I’m using the DISQUS plugin for comments, I didn’t need OpenID support for those. I just wanted to be able to use http://robboek.com to log in to other sites.

Next, I tried phpMyID. phpMyID was pretty easy to setup and the test worked, but I couldn’t get it to let me login to stackoverflow. While trying to setup phpMyID, I noticed the link tags it had me insert into the template and figured that I should probably be able to point to another OpenID provider from my blog url and have that work. A little searching revealed this post that pointed me in the right direction.

Here are the steps to use your Google account as an OpenID Provider for your blog:

  1. Go to http://openid-provider.appspot.com/ and login using your Google account. It will give you an OpenID sign-on in the form of: 
    http://openid-provider.appspot.com/[your google email]
  2. Add the following 2 lines to the <head> section of your template: 
    <link rel="openid.server" href="[OpenID from step 1]" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="[OpenID from step 1]" />

    As an example, the lines I added were:

    <link rel="openid.server" href="http://openid-provider.appspot.com/rob@robboek.com" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid-provider.appspot.com/rob@robboek.com" />

That’s all there is to it. Two easy steps and now I can use http://robboek.com to login to OpenID enabled sites.

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