Use Authgear as an OpenID Connect Provider

Using Authgear as an OpenID Connect Provider for any OIDC compatible applications.

If your application supports logging in using an OpenID Connect provider, you can use Authgear as the provider.

Setting up Authgear in the Portal

1. Go to Applications on the left menu bar.

2. Click ⊕Add Application in the top tool bar.

3. Input the name and select the application type OIDC Client Application. Click "Save".

4. You will see a link to this guide that can help you for setting up, then click "Next".

5. In the URIs section, fill in the Authorized Redirect URIs with your application's redirect uri.

6. Obtain the OpenID Connect configuration:

   1. You can obtain the Client ID and Client Secret from the Basic Info section.

   2. You can obtain the OIDC Endpoints from the Endpoints section.

7. Provide the OpenID Connect configuration to your application.

🎉 Done! You should be able to use Authgear to log in to your application.

WordPress Example

In this section, we are going to demonstrate how to use Authgear as the OIDC provider for WordPress login.

1. Follow the previous section (Setting up Authgear in the Portal) to setup an OIDC Client Application.

2. We are going to use plugin OpenID Connect Generic Client. Or you can use any other OIDC compatible plugin. Download and activate it in your WordPress site.

3. Go to Setting > OpenID Connect Client.

4. Fill in the form

   1. Client ID: Obtain the Client ID from the Basic Info section.

   2. Client Secret Key: Obtain the Client Secret from the Basic Info section.

   3. OpenID Scope: Space separated list of scopes the plugin could access.

      • Example: openid offline_access https://authgear.com/scopes/full-userinfo.

      • https://authgear.com/scopes/full-userinfo is needed to obtain user's profile (e.g. email). Otherwise the plugin will be able to get the user id only.

   4. Login Endpoint URL: Obtain Authorization Endpoint from the Endpoints section.

      • Example: https://{AUTHGEAR_APP_DOMAIN}/oauth2/authorize.

   5. Userinfo Endpoint URL: Obtain Userinfo Endpoint from the Endpoints section.

      • Example: https://{AUTHGEAR_APP_DOMAIN}/oauth2/userinfo.

   6. Token Validation Endpoint URL: Obtain Token Endpoint from the Endpoints section.

      • Example: https://{AUTHGEAR_APP_DOMAIN}/oauth2/token.

   7. End Session Endpoint URL: Keep it empty.

   8. Identity Key: Where in the user claim to find the user's identification data.

      • Suggest to use sub which is the user id in Authgear.

   9. Setup the user claim keys based on your project login method setting.

      • If your project is using email to login

        • Nickname Key: Set it to email.

        • Email Formatting: Set it to {email}.

      • If your project is using phone to login

        • Nickname Key: Set it to phone_number.

        • Email Formatting: Clear it.

      • If your project is using username to login

        • Nickname Key: Set it to preferred_username.

        • Email Formatting: Clear it.

5. At the bottom of the plugin settings page, you will be able to obtain the Redirect URI. Go to Authgear portal, add the uri to the Authorized Redirect URIs.