phpLDAPadmin

We have configured Apache to use its built-in LDAP modules to perform authentication with the help of a directory server. Now we are going to turn to a more complex web-based application, phpLDAPadmin. phpLDAPadmin is an application, written in PHP, designed to help manage a directory server. While it is known to work on other directory servers, it was developed against OpenLDAP.

Prerequisites

Before we can install phpLDAPadmin, we will need to install a few other packages. In the first part of this chapter we looked at Apache. This (or some other web server) is required to run phpLDAPadmin. Additionally, some recent version of PHP (we will use PHP 5) is needed, along with the PHP LDAP module.

For example, to install PHP 5, we would ...

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