[Xerte-dev] Re: Successful install of XoT 1.7 + AD authentication at Lowestoft but .....

[Pat Lockley]

Hi Thomas,

How much time did ldap take?

Do they have a working moodle install?

Pat

On 28 May 2012, at 22:51, "Thomas Rochford" <thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> wrote:

> Good Evening Everyone,
>  
> I spent all day at the College, because there were a number of new issues encountered so I thought it worth documenting
>  
> 1)      They wanted to run it under Server 2008 R2 with XAMPP to provide management. XAMPP 1.7.7. (and 1.8.0 by the look of it) will not run properly under this operating system because of problems with the compiler versions used. This prevents Apache running. The MS Workaround suggested is to download an older version of the distributable C++ support libraries but they were reluctant to do this as the server, although brand new at present, was intended to host a large number of Apps within the Institution, so this ruled out both Apache and XAMPP
> 2)      We then thought to try it under IIS but there were some issues with the Microsoft distribution of PHP 5.3.*
> 3)      In the meantime they had run up a virtual W7 server so we used this with XAMPP using the older version - xampp-win32-1.7.3. There were some minor issues with misconfigured paths for the PEAR extensions but that did not seem to stop things working.
> 4)      I made the changes to login_library.php described in my earlier posting but there were still some problems as follows
> (a)    The ‘Top Level OU’ was configured in AD as college.ac.uk this would not work at all so we configured a bind DN without an OU, but three DC entries, viz.: DC=college, DC=ac, DC=uk.
> (b)   Although we were now able to bind, the lack of an OU meant that searches were failing so we configured three base DNs for three separate servers with DCs set to the user areas for Staff, Students and special cases. This then worked satisfactorily. I created the ‘multiple’ LDAP hosts by inserting extra rows in the LDAP table manually.
>  
> It’s clear that there is unlikely to be any general uniformity in the structure of AD’s or the naming conventions used. The College is considering inserting a new top Level OU – e.g. AuthUsers – but as the present installation seems to be working smoothly – at least from the server point of view, I do not think this to be a high priority.
>  
> Again this makes the case, to my mind, for keeping as much as possible in the MySQL tables which seem to be reasonably flexible and can probably handle a range of cases more easily than could be done within the installation/management code itself.
>  
> I will try to follow this up with a rather more detailed posting of the final working filters and DNs, so this really just needs to act as a holder and a marker for future development, as I notice that Dave (?) has done quite a lot with the new OO Login scripts for XoT 1.8. They are going to try installing this alongside the XoT 1.7 install with a separate Database.
>  
> Kindest regards, Thomas
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