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Installation documentation should explain memcached
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Installation documentation mentions memcached only under requirements, but for somebody new to MediaWiki and OAuth extension this is unclear. Also, installation without memcached fails in a strange way without clear message. I spent quite some time debugging why it does not work. I think there should be few lines how to run a simple local memcached in installation process for OAuth and then link to the memcached paage for more information. And OAuth should throw some error mentioning that memcached is missing.

(BTW, I am running MediaWiki + OAuth on SQLite and it seems to work.)

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Use session cache instead of $wgMemc for request token and nonce storagemediawiki/extensions/OAuthmaster+14 -15
Customize query in gerrit

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:45 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth.
• bzimport set Reference to bz69499.
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Mitar created this task.Aug 13 2014, 10:17 PM
Mitar added a comment.Aug 14 2014, 3:37 AM

(Taking back, SQLite works only with one consumer.)

Aklapper triaged this task as Lowest priority.Jan 7 2015, 2:17 PM
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bd808 moved this task from Backlog to UI/UX on the MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth board.Mar 6 2015, 10:12 PM
Ricordisamoa subscribed.Jun 29 2015, 8:56 PM

I also felt confused while debugging. Are there any chances to get OAuth working with a non-memcached fallback?

Anomie added a comment.Jun 30 2015, 2:47 PM

I note memcached isn't actually required, but it does require that $wgMainCacheType is something that persists across requests. CACHE_NONE won't work, 'hash' won't work. Note there's no straightforward way to detect that $wgMainCacheType is really something that will persist.

It could be changed such that OAuth uses its own cache variable instead of $wgMemc / $wgMainCacheType and default that to CACHE_ANYTHING.

gerritbot subscribed.Jun 30 2015, 3:03 PM

Change 221863 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anomie):
Use our own cache configuration variable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/221863

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 30 2015, 3:03 PM
Ricordisamoa mentioned this in T112705: passport-mediawiki does not set oauth_token.Sep 18 2015, 3:10 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 28 2016, 11:09 PM

Change 221863 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use session cache instead of $wgMemc for request token and nonce storage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/221863

Tgr closed this task as Resolved.Jul 28 2016, 11:20 PM
Tgr assigned this task to Anomie.
ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-02_(1.28.0-wmf.13)).Jul 29 2016, 12:01 AM
MarcoAurelio removed a parent task: T2001: [DO NOT USE] Documentation is out of date, incomplete (tracking) [superseded by #Documentation].Dec 6 2017, 7:32 PM
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