Apache talk to Active Directory

[digatle]

Has anyone out there been able to sucessfully have Apache communicate with an Active Directory? We've found a few leads for an IIS solution but we are wanting to integrate the permissions on our intranet, running with Apache, using Active Directory. We prefer writting in PHP.

Digatle

 

[siberian]

What specifically are you trying to do? Allow your AD logins to be used on the apache server?

If so mod_auth_ldap is probably your best bet.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html

 

[digatle]

What we are trying to do is this:

We are building from scratch an Intranet. Part of our wish list includes the following:

- In the header it says "Hello $name".
- We want to have some customized areas like "Stock Quotes". Be able (through cookies) to allow people to add/remove stock quotes for their own use.
- Also part of the customized areas is the ability to find out what "department" you are in. So for instance I am a member of "Operations" and "Intranet Services". Intranet Services is under our Operations area. When I go to our Intranet I "start" at my Intranet Services page.

We'll start with these three issues. We are programming this in PHP.

Digatle

 

[siberian]

This may all be available through your LDAP directory. You can use the apache mod_auth_ldap to authenticate and then find some other PHP modules to pull the user info via LDAP.