Title: Login/Register Via Java Web App
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Login/Register Via Java Web App

 *  [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/)
 * I have a website that runs on Java (Tomcat, MySQL).
 * I am in the process of adding a blog to the website by integrating WordPress 
   into the website (ie: [http://www.mysite.com/blog](http://www.mysite.com/blog)
   will be the domain of the WordPress blog, the rest will be my (non-WordPress)
   site).
 * I want to have only one register/login and for that to be through the main (non-
   WordPress) site. Also, if a user is logged in to the main site, he should also
   be logged into the WP site.
 * To do this I was thinking of doing the following:
 * 1) Move all current users into the wp_users table and add all new users to that
   table.
 * 2) Forward WP login to non-WP login form. Enter userId and random UUID into a
   custom table on WP database and attach the UUID as a parameter to the URL (which
   will also contain the url from which the user arrived, so if they arrived from
   the WP site it will forward them back to the WP site).
 * 3) On forum pages, if not logged in, check for UUID parameter and if it exists
   log the user in (with functions such as `wp_set_current_user` and `wp_set_auth_cookie`,
   etc.).
 * Does this seem like a reasonable method? Is there a preferred way to do this?
   Are there any flaws with my proposed setup? I’m new to PHP and WP so I might 
   have overlooked an easier solution.
 * Thank you.

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 *  [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718043)
 * We use an external LDAP app for authorization. You don’t have to move all the
   users first. On first visit to the WordPress installation, a user that is logged
   into our LDAP would be created in WordPress. It only requires 3 items to create
   an account: username, password, and email. We pull username and email from the
   LDAP and use a “fake” password for WordPress.
 * In a plugin you can write code to do this using the init action
 *  Thread Starter [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718117)
 * Thank you.
 * Regarding this statement:
    “On first visit to the WordPress installation, a user
   that is logged into our LDAP would be created in WordPress”
 * How do you know that said user is logged into your LDAP?
    When a “user” uses 
   my WP site, I have no way of knowing that he is a user on my non-WP site.
 * (I am not at all familiar with LDAP. I am using a Java web app as my external
   app).
 * Thanks again.
 *  [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718120)
 * We set a cookie when they are logged into our LDAP app…You could do the same…
   just have your Java web app set a cookie once they are authenticated.
 *  Thread Starter [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718122)
 * I see.
 * Are you at all worried about the “fake password”? Specifically, someone can somehow
   access your WP login page and sign in as any user. Or, do you enter some random,
   difficult to crack password?
 * Thanks.
 *  [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718124)
 * It’s a strong password, but the wp-login.php page is not available to anyone.
 *  Thread Starter [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718125)
 * Did you just completely remove the wp-login.php file?
 * Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loginregister-via-java-web-app/#post-7718125)
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