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SSO for Apps Using Thinkific as IDP

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Thinkific Single Sign On (SSO) for Your Application miniOrange provides a ready to use solution for Your application. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to your application using Thinkific within minutes.

Using our identity broker service you can easily SSO into any app. You can configure Thinkific as IDP which supports SAML to single sign-on into apps that support SAML or any other protocols like OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, etc. Our Identity Broker service enables cross protocol authentication. Follow the easy steps given in this guide to login using Thinkific.

1. Creating an App In Thinkific.

• Login to your Thinkific Partners Account.
• Click on Apps in the left navigation bar and select Create your first app.



• Fill in the App name, App URL, and Callback URL.
• Click on Create.



• Go to Settings and Details.
• Fill in all the required fields.
• Add https://partner.thinkific.com/oauth/callback as a Callback URL along with your Apps callback URL.



• Save App Details.
• Add your Thinkific site URL in the Install section, then click Install.



• Go to your Thinkific site admin account. Click on Apps in the left navigation bar. You will have your app installed on your site.



• Go back to your Partners Account.
• Click on your App.
• Copy the Client Key and Client Secret from the API Access Section. We will require these values later during miniOrange configuration.

2. Configure Thinkific as OAuth 2.0 Provider in miniOrange.

• Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider. Select Oauth





• Enter the following values.

IdP Name	Custom Provider
IdP Display Name	Choose appropriate Name
OAuth Authorize Endpoint	https://{subdomain}.thinkific.com/oauth2/authorize
OAuth Access Token Endpoint	https://{subdomain}.thinkific.com/oauth2/token
OAuth Get User Info Endpoint	https://{subdomain}.thinkific.com/oidc/userinfo
Client ID	Client Key from Thinkific
Client secret	Client Secret from Thinkific

3. Configure your application in miniOrange

• Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
• Go to Apps >> Add Application.

• SAML Application
• OAuth Application
• JWT Application

• Click on Create App under SAML.



• Search for your Application. In case you do not find your app, search for Custom SAML App.





• Get the ACS URL and SP Entity ID from your application.
• Enter the following values OR click on Import SP Metadata:

Service Provider Name	Choose appropriate name according to your choice
SP Entity ID or Issuer	Your Application Entity ID
ACS URL X.509 Certificate (optional)	Your Application Assertion Consumer Service URL
NameID format	Select urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
Response Signed	Unchecked
Assertion Signed	Checked
Encrypted Assertion	Unchecked
Group policy	Default
Login Method	Password

• Click on Save to configure your application.
• Now to get the IDP metadata of the app configured, Go to apps >> your_app >> select >> metadata tab.



• Click on the Show Metadata details in the Information required to Authenticate via External IDPs section. Download the metadata XML file by clicking on Download Metadata button or copy the Metadata URL link.



• You need to Upload this metadata in your application.

• Click on Create App under OAuth/OIDC. Click on Open ID Connect App .



• You can add any OAuth Client app here to enable miniOrange as OAuth Server. Few popular OAuth client apps for single sign-on are Salesforce, WordPress, Joomla, Atlassian, etc.





• Enter following Values:

Client Name	Add appropriate Name
Redirect URL	Get the Redirect-URL from your OAuth Client
Description	Add if required
Group Name	Default
Policy Name	As per your Choice
Login Method	Password

• Click on Save
• Now to provide the required data to OAuth client go to the app configured i.e apps >> your_app >> select >> edit.






Note: Choose the Authorization Endpoint according to the identity source you configure.

• When you want to use you want to use miniOrange as OAuth identity server use this endpoint: https://{mycompany.domainname.com}/moas/idp/openidsso
• If you are configuring any Identity Provider in Identity Providers Menu and not using miniOrange as IDP use this endpoint: https://{mycompany.domainname.com}/broker/login/oauth{customerid}

• Click on Create App under JWT.



• Select JWT App.



• Configure the name for your application and configure Redirect-URL which tells where to send JWT response. Redirect-URL should be an endpoint on your application where you want to achieve SSO.




In case you are setting up SSO with Mobile Applications where you can't create an endpoint for Redirect or Callback URL, use below URL.

https://login.xecurify.com/moas/jwt/mobile


• Click Save
• To get the SSO link for your application, Go to Apps >> your_app >> select >> Edit.



• Then, copy the Single Sign On Url and verify SSO setup by browsing that url.



• On successful authentication, you will be redirected to configured Redirect or Callback URL with JWT token
• You will need to download a certificate from App > Manage Apps, and click Certificate link against your configured application. This certificate will be used for signature validation of JWT response.

External References

• What is SSO and How does it work?
• Thinkific Single Sign-On (SSO) Solution
• What is an Identity Provider (IDP)?