Here is a trick to have your web applications that run on apache servers to authenticate using a LDAP server.   Note, your apache server should support .htaccess.  This is useful when you want to restrict certain applications to authorised users in a network.

Create a .htaccess file in the root of your application with the following content.  Please put in the appropriate values for AuthLDAPURL.

AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Enter your userid and password :”
AuthLDAPURL “ldap://your.ldap.server/dc=domain,dc=com?uid?sub?(objectClass=*)
Require valid-user

You may restrict access to specific users by repacing “Require valid-user” with something like “Require john, harry”.  In this case only john and harry can access the application.

Tags: apache

This entry was posted by Shibu Basheer on Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm and is filed under linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.