How can I sync my custom Webflow login with Memberstack to avoid double authentication on Learnworlds?
Hey guys, I want to connect my Webflow login done via Memberstack to Learnworlds.
I already added an SSO to learnworld that allows me to login with my memberstack username/pass.
But when I login on my custom login page on my webflow site, it does not log me into https://auth.memberstack.com/interaction/----
And it basically asks me to login again on memberstack... which is definitely not ideal because why should a user login twice to his memberstack profile.
Also just for reference, when I login on my custom login page on my webflow site, I do get the currentMember but not my token.
I was thinking of doing something with the token maybe, but even that's not available.
If I can just login to the official memberstack popover automatically with my custom form, that would be ideal.
Any thoughts?
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Hey Asaad Mahmood, I am not familiar with Learnworlds yet, but I was wondering what the setup currently is like for this project.
Are you setting something up like this but with Learnworlds instead or are you trying to set something like a cross-domain login feature for the sites which share a root domain?
Some info on how this is setup might help in understanding the goal and current setup.
Now I’m having an issue where Memberstack keeps asking for me to login even though I’m on the same root domain.
https://www.loom.com/share/d9dd313fe6bb4ed7862b8d607d829e20
Please see if someone can help, really bothering my client.
🔴 P.S: Willing to pay $100 for anyone who can help me fix this issue.
Updated that too, but it doesn’t help, tried a lot of things 🙂
The problem is, that on one side:
Webflow: People are logging in via the default webflow memberstack option
And on
Learnworlds: People are logging into a memberstack SSO
Unfortunately when you use the default mechanism (popup or custom form in webflow), it doesn’t seem to be logging you into to memberstack globally so that if you access the SSO from elsewhere, you’re already logged in.
You need to update BOTH sites with the memberstackConfig before declaring the memberstack script. Right now one is taking cookies as a means of authentication, and the other localstorage (default). Both need to use cookies
Try it and let me know if the issue continues
Is your Learnwords site authentication being handled by Memberstack as well? or they are handling their own authentication? 🤔
Its updated on both sides before the memberstack script, I tried multiple ways.
Both have that cookies script before the memberstackjs script.
Internally, everything is working fine. I can get the member data from both pages without needing to log in again on the other site. The problem is that LearnWorlds authentication and Memberstack authentication are two completely different systems. Their auth tokens aren’t compatible, so logging in with one won’t automatically log you in with the other.
If both sites used Memberstack for authentication, it would work seamlessly.
Memberstack’s custom SSO option essentially turns Memberstack into the authentication provider, meaning other apps can log in via Memberstack. But it doesn’t work the other way around. You can’t use a different provider to log in to Memberstack. You can see the list of authorized providers in your Memberstack settings.
So, the only way to share a session between domains is if both sites use Memberstack as the auth provider and share the same token in their cookies.
Yeah that’s what I thought too Raquel Lopez
So doesn’t look like there’s a way to get this to work right?
Sadly there's no simple way around it 😕
Only maybe, if you're able to force Memberstack on LearnWords, like making all content public and use Memberstack for gating content and authentication, that would be a possibility. But I'm not sure if is possible with LearnWords
I also thought that, but doesn’t seem like a way to do it, also reached out to learnworlds on this, they recommended setting up a unified authentication mechanism on both platforms.
Memberstack’s only method for creating a valid token/session is through its own login (or via an authorized SSO provider).
So, to maintain the same session across domains, the user would still need to “pass through” Memberstack at some point.
One possible workaround would be to create a program that, when switching to LearnWorlds, takes the Memberstack session from the cookie, validates it, and then uses that to create a new LearnWorlds session. The tokens would be different, but the user would be automatically logged in on both platforms.
However, this wouldn’t work in the opposite direction (LearnWorlds -> Webflow) because Memberstack won’t accept LearnWorlds tokens.
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