Help Needed with LDAP support

[mharr]

In a windows environment, should LDAP support show up easily in the phpinfo file ? I have uncommented the ldap dll in php.ini and chcked that it is in the extensions folder and restarted the machine, but phpinfo does not show LDAP enabled anywhere that I can see.

This shouldn't be hard, so I am sure it is just me doing something stupid !!!

Help !!

[schu]

I believe that the ldap module will not show up in Diagnostics...PHP Info. If you use PHP's native php_info();, then it should show something about ldap.

On the other hand, if you did uncomment in the right file, and restarted apache or IIS, you could just try setting up a LoginShare to see if it works...that might be faster. Good luck!

-Aaron Schuett

[mharr]

Thanks for the reply Aaron. Good to know that it does not show in the diagnostics php data. However I have made my own php_info() type file and it does not show up there either.

I have tried the "well I'll just ignore that and keep going and hopefully it will work" attitude, but sadly it does not. All I get is a blank screen regardless of what username and password I use. Even if I just type **** in there it still just comes up with a blank screen.

So I thought I better go back to the start and sort out LDAP with php first.
I am assuming it is obvious in phpinfo when ldap support is enabled ?

Mark.

[schu]

Mark,

Yes, it seems you have PHP set to not show errors (a good idea), which is why you are getting a blank screen instead of any errors. Are you by chance editing the wrong php.ini file? If you take a look at the php_info() you ran, there should be a line "Configuration File (php.ini) Path."
If this doesn't work, some specifics of server software and php version might get some ideas.

-Aaron Schuett

[mharr]

Aaron,

I am running on a 2k3 server with php 4.4.2 and IIS 6.

I have checked that I am editing the right php.ini file. According to phpinfo I am. That hasn't stopped me looking at it a number of times :-))

What should I change in the php.ini file so that I can see any errors that come up. Maybe that will help me with what is wrong.

Thanks,
Mark.

[schu]

Mark,

Hm, I don't have much (read: any) experience with php & IIS. Here goes my best shot at helping. There should be a line in the php.ini that shows:
display_errors = Off
If you change to on, php should show the error, and give you a hint as to what is wrong. I would still think that it will show call to undefined function ldap_connect(), meaning ldap extension isn't enabled somewhere.

Let's just double-check that you also have a line reading "extension=php_ldap.dll". If so, is the extension directory set correctly? You should have a line like, "extension_dir = "c:\php4\extensions" or whatever the correct path is for you.

Although you are using php4, not php5, I found that the following website might be helpful to you: http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html

-Aaron Schuett

[mharr]

Aaron,

Thanks for you suggestions and help. I assume you running in a Linux environment.

I have checked and double checked that the php.ini file is set correctly for both the ldap_php.dll and extensions_dll is pointing to the correct directory.
I turned on error display and get this in the browser.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ldap_connect() in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\includes\LoginShare\activedirec tory.login.php on line 40

which would suggest that I dont have ldap enabled in php. !!

I have a line in my phpinfo data that says " Virtual Directory Support - Enabled". I am assuming this is not the same as Active Directory being enabled ??

If someone has phpinfo data from a windows environment that shows Active directory support, could you please post that part of it here so I can see what it looks like.

Thanks
Mark.

[schu]

Mark,

I am running Windows, but I'm on Apache as oppoes to IIS. The virtual directory support is not related to active directory/LDAP. I'm not quite sure what it is, but it is enabled on my server as well. Following is a link to a phpinfo() on my server:
http://mba3.cobe.uww.edu/kayako_phpinfo.php
Maybe a person more experienced with IIS could chime in?

-Aaron Schuett

[mharr]

Aaron,
Well I definitely dont have ldap enabled so I will work on trying to figure out why. Thanks for the link to your phpinfo - at least now I know what ldap enabled looks like.
I will look through the "peterguy" website and see what I can find.
It seems that it should be so easy to get ldap enabled so I am not sure what I am doing wrong !!

Mark.