Webflow Azure AD integration by miniOrange helps customers allow their users to access Azure Ad credentials for seamless access to Webflow using SSO. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to Webflow using Azure AD within minutes instead of managing users in Webflow. miniOrange also provides 30-days free trial to test out the solution on your own.
miniOrange Webflow integration is just not limited to Azure AD but you can easily connect with any of your IDP (Okta, Ping, Microsoft, etc), Active & LDAP without migrating your users. Webflow SSO integration helps your organization's time and efforts with improved security to your data present in the cloud or on-premise.
Note: You don't need any enterprise plan or premium feature to enable SSO for Webflow.
Click on Customization in the left menu of the dashboard.
In Basic Settings, set your company domain in Organization Name textfield.
Click Save. Once that is set, the branded login URL would be of the format https://<company_domain>.xecurify.com/moas/login
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Shibboleth, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more.
Follow the step-by-step guide given below for Webflow Single Sign-On (SSO) with AzureAD
1. Configure Webflow in miniOrange
Go to Apps >> Add Application from the side menu.
Click on the JWT under Choose Application Type.
In the next step, search for Webflow application from the list. If your application is not found, search for External / JWT App and you can set up your Application.
You can configure the following details in the application:
Custom App Name
Enter the Application Name of your choice, and add a description if required.
Redirect-URL
Enter the Redirect-URL (i.e. the endpoint where you want to send/post your JWT token).
You can add multiple redirect URLs by separating them with a ‘;’. E.g. abc.com;xyz.com
Primary Identity Provider (optional)
Select your Identity Source from the dropdown. You can select miniOrange here as default IDP.
Click on Save to complete the configuration.
Click on Edit in the select menu against your app.
You can get further details about your recently added JWT application:
Client ID
If your application provides its own client ID, you can configure it by clicking on the Customize button.
App Secret
You can find App Secret by clicking on the copy icon. This is used in the HS265 Signature
algorithm for generating the signature.
Signature Algorithm
Select your signature algorithm from the dropdown.
Primary Identity Provider
Select the default Identity Provider from the dropdown for the application. If not selected, users will see the default
login screen and can choose their own IDP. [Choose miniOrange in this case.]
Redirect URL
Given below is your app URL where you will receive your token.
RSA 256 : <your_app-login-url> (Here token will be added by the system)
HS256 : <app-login-url/?id_token=>
Scroll down to Endpoints >> Single Sign-On URL. Save this URL as you will need this in the following configuration.
click on Save to save the configuration.
2. Adding Script on Webflow's End
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To enable SSO on Webflow's end, all you need to do is add a Single Sign-On URL and Customized Script to retrieve the required attributes from the JWT token.
Please click here to contact us for the script which is to be added.
3. Setting up on Azure AD
3.a. Configuring miniOrange as Service Provider (SP) in Azure AD
Select Azure Active Directory ⇒ Enterprise Applications.
Click on New Application.
Click on Create your own application section and enter the name for your app and click on Create button.
Click on Single sign-on from the application's left-hand navigation menu. The next screen presents the options for configuring single sign-on. Click on SAML.
Go to miniOrange Dashboard in the left navigation menu. Click on Add External IdP.
Now click on the Click here link to get miniorange metadata as shown in Screen below.
Here you will see 2 options, if you are going to initiate SSO from the Application copy the metadata details related to miniOrange from the SP - Initiated SSO section otherwise go for the metadata details from the IDP - Initiated section.
For Basic SAML configuration you need to get the Entity ID, ACS URL, and the Single Logout URL from miniOrange. You will be able to find the necessary details here.
Enter the values in basic SAML configuration as shown in below screen
Identifier (Entity ID)
Entity ID or Issuer copied from the miniOrange metadata section mentioned in the previous step.
Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL)
ACS URL copied from the miniOrange metadata section mentioned in the previous step.
Logout URL
Single Logout URL copied from the miniOrange metadata section mentioned in the previous step.
By default, the following Attributes will be sent in the SAML token. You can view or edit the claims sent in the SAML token to the application under the Attributes tab.
Download Federation Metadata xml, and copy the Logout URL as well. This will be used while configuring the Azure AD as IDP in Step 3.b.
3.b. User/Group Assignment
Assign users and groups to your SAML application.
As a security control, Azure AD will not issue a token allowing a user to sign in to the application unless Azure AD has granted access to the user. Users may be granted access directly, or through group membership.
Click on Users and groups from the applications left-hand navigation menu. The next screen presents the options for assigning the users/groups to the application.
After clicking on Add user, Select Users and groups in the Add Assignment screen.
The next screen presents the option for selecting user or invite an external user. Select the appropriate user and click on the Select button.
Here, you can also assign a role to this user under Select Role section.
Finally, click on Assign button to assign that user or group to the SAML application.
3.c. Configure Azure AD as Identity Provider (IDP) in miniOrange
From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider
Click on Add Identity Provider button.
Select SAML. Click on Import IDP metadata.
Choose appropriate IDP name. Browse for the file downloaded in step 1.a.
Click on Import.
As shown below the, IDP Entity ID, SAML SSO Login URL and x.509 Certificate will be auto filled via the imported metadata file. You can also enter the Logout URL copied from Azure AD in the Single Logout URL field.
Few other optional features that can be enabled are listed below:
Domain Mapping
Enable to redirect domain specific user to a specific IDP
Show IdP to Users
Enable this option if you wish to show this IDP as a button on the login page. Eg : Login with Azure AD.
Send Configured Attributes
Enable this option if you wish to send user attributes from the IDP to WebFlow while SSO.
Click on Save.
3.d. Test IDP Connection
Go to Identity Providers tab.
Click on Select>>Test Connection option against the Identity Provider you configured.
On entering valid Azure Ad credentials you will see a pop-up window which as shown in below screen.
Hence your configuration of Azure AD as IDP in miniOrange is successfully completed.
4. Test SSO Configuration
On accessing the Single sign-On URL, you will be asked for Azure AD credentials.
On entering the valid credentials, you will be successfully logged into Webflow.
Yes, our scripts are completely customizable and you can restrict page access based on memberships, groups, company . domain or any other custom attribute of your choice.
We handle this by adding the no script tags in our script file, this enables redirection of your users to a customizable page with instructions to enable javascript.
