Amazon

Overview

The Akeeba Social Login - Amazon integration plugin allows user on your site to use their Amazon account to login or register a user account on your site.

Setup on Amazon

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Before you can use Amazon login on your site you must create an Amazon "Security Profile". Even though it sounds scary, an Amazon Security Profile is simply a way for you to get a set of access codes which let you identify your site on Amazon.

Start by going to https://developer.amazon.com/apps-and-games/login-with-amazon and log in, if you are not already logged in.

Then, go to https://developer.amazon.com/loginwithamazon/console/site/lwa/overview.html

Click on Create a New Security Profile

Fill in the following information:

• Security Profile Name: Your website name
• Security Profile Description: This is what your visitors see
• Consent Privacy Notice URL: A URL on your site with your Privacy Notice
• Consent Logo Image: Your logo

Click on Save

Go back to https://developer.amazon.com/loginwithamazon/console/site/lwa/overview.html

Click the gear icon under manage, select Security profile

Click on the Web Settings tab

Click on Edit

In the Allowed Origins enter the URL of your site, e.g. https://www.example.com

In the Allowed Return URLs enter http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_ajax&group=sociallogin&plugin=amazon&format=raw where http://www.example.com MUST be replaced with your site's URL.

Click on Save

You are still on the Web Settings tab. Copy the Client ID into the plugin's Amazon Client ID field.

Click on the Show Secret button. Copy the displayed Client Secret into the plugin's Amazon Client Secret field.

Plugin options

Amazon Client ID Enter the Client ID for your custom Amazon Security Profile here. See the previous section for creating an Amazon Security Profile.

Amazon Client Secret Enter the Secret Key for your custom Amazon Security Profile here. See the previous section for creating an Amazon Security Profile.

Allow social login to non-linked accounts When enabled allows users to log in despite not having linked their Amazon account to their site user account. Their Amazon account's email address must be the same as the email account they use on your site.

Create new user accounts Creates a new Joomla! user when a user tries to log in via Amazon but there is no Joomla! user account associated with that email or Amazon User ID. If user registration is disabled no account will be created and an error will be raised. The new Joomla! user will have a username derived from the Amazon account holder's full name, the same email address as the Amazon account, and a long, random password (which the user can change once they have logged in). Set this to No to prevent creation of user accounts through Amazon login.

Ignore Joomla! setting for creating user accounts When both this option and the Create new user accounts option above are enabled a new user will always be created, even if you have disabled user registration in the options of Joomla's Users page. This is useful to prevent anyone from registering to your site unless they have an Amazon account.

Bypass user validation Only applies when creating new user accounts. When enabled the new user will be created active, without going through the Joomla! user account validation. This means that no account activation email will be sent to the user or the administrators of the Joomla! site. This makes perfect sense since Amazon has already verified that the user is in control of the email address they are using with their Amazon account.

Button styling When enabled custom CSS for login, link and unlink button styling will be output to the page header. Disable this option if you intend to use your own CSS to style the buttons.

Icon class The icon CSS class to use in the login, link and unlink buttons. Useful to use an icon font such as FontAwesome or Glyphicons to render the logo. If it's left empty, a PNG image with the Amazon logo will be used instead.

Login buttons can be shown in In which part(s) of your site do you want to allow showing the Social Login buttons? For more information on how this feature works please consult the “Hiding in the frontend or backend” documentation page.