FreeBSD, PHP, Moodle + LDAP

[Marci]

Anyone here managed to succesfully set up Moodle LDAP authentication on a FreeBSD Server?

 

Here's the outline...

 

FreeBSD Server running cPanel / WHM 11, hosting several websites (both internal and external). Moodle currently uses manual authentication. We want to get it setup so that Moodle authenticates from our MS-AD database running on our Forest Root.

 

Problem - what ports do I need to install before I can recompile PHP with LDAP? At the moment it just fails...

 

Have found instructions for Linux rpms, but they're useless to me... Can find plenty of instructions for Windows-based servers, but again, useless to me...

[Joedetic]

Ports Search any use to you?

 

FreeBSD Ports Search

 

I would have thought it'd be a good idea to recompile apache with auth_ldap.

 

 

When it fails what errors do you get? (Not the dreaded error code 2!!)

[saundersmatt]

I've had it working in the past but i'm rusty with any instrucitons as it was likely 18 months ago.

 

You need to get a working samba/winbind implementation(the hardest part) and then moodle plugs into that.

 

I'll try and have a look for any notes that i've still got from my setup.

 

Edit: Just realised that you don't need winbind, I only used it because I needed it for something else. What error are you getting when compiling php with ldap?

 

 

 

Matt

Edited June 24, 2008 by saundersmatt

[powdarrmonkey]

I would have thought it'd be a good idea to recompile apache with auth_ldap.

 

If you want to do the authentication in Apache itself, yes. But in this case it's PHP that needs LDAP.

 

If it won't compile in, will it compile in isolation as a module? This is more flexible in any case.

[Marci]

"Cannot find ldap.h" is the error I receive...

 

Now, investigation shows this to usually be caused by lack of openldap-devel on Linux boxes... however, there is no ldap devel in the FreeBSD Ports Tree that I can find...

 

The instructions I'm going off are as follows:

 

WHM>Software>Install RPM

- installed openldap

- installed openldap-servers

- installed openldap-devel - if it is not installed, you'll get "Cannot find ldap.h" error while recompiling

- installed openldap-clients - for working from command line

 

- edited /home/cpapachebuild/buildapache/buildscript - I added --with-ldap after all instances of configuration

- run buildscript

 

They're the only step-by-steps I could find for the recompile, and they're for Linux. So, replace rpm with equivalent port. Rest is as per the instructions... except for that darn lack of ldap-devel...

 

See cPanel Forums (where I got little response).

 

Searching for openldap in the wHm ports installer presents me with the following (no devel):

 

Searching for Ports...
Click on the path to the port to install it!

Port:	openldap-client-2.3.42
Path	/usr/ports/net/openldap23-client
Info:	Open source LDAP client implementation
Maint:	[email protected]
B-deps:	libtool-1.5.26
R-deps:	
WWW:	http://www.OpenLDAP.org/

Port:	openldap-sasl-client-2.3.42
Path	/usr/ports/net/openldap23-sasl-client
Info:	Open source LDAP client implementation with SASL2 support
Maint:	[email protected]
B-deps:	cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1 libtool-1.5.26
R-deps:	cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1
WWW:	http://www.OpenLDAP.org/

Port:	openldap-server-2.3.42
Path	/usr/ports/net/openldap23-server
Info:	Open source LDAP server implementation
Maint:	[email protected]
B-deps:	db44-4.4.20.4 libltdl-1.5.26 libtool-1.5.26 openldap-client-2.3.42
R-deps:	db44-4.4.20.4 libltdl-1.5.26 openldap-client-2.3.42
WWW:	http://www.OpenLDAP.org/

Port:	openldap-client-2.4.10
Path	/usr/ports/net/openldap24-client
Info:	Open source LDAP client implementation
Maint:	[email protected]
B-deps:	libtool-1.5.26
R-deps:	
WWW:	http://www.OpenLDAP.org/

Port:	openldap-sasl-client-2.4.10
Path	/usr/ports/net/openldap24-sasl-client
Info:	Open source LDAP client implementation with SASL2 support
Maint:	[email protected]
B-deps:	cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1 libtool-1.5.26
R-deps:	cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1
WWW:	http://www.OpenLDAP.org/

Port:	openldap-server-2.4.10
Path	/usr/ports/net/openldap24-server
Info:	Open source LDAP server implementation
Maint:	[email protected]
B-deps:	db46-4.6.21.1 libltdl-1.5.26 libtool-1.5.26 openldap-client-2.4.10
R-deps:	db46-4.6.21.1 libltdl-1.5.26 openldap-client-2.4.10
WWW:	http://www.OpenLDAP.org/