[Xerte] LDAP settings

Wed Feb 10 12:29:25 GMT 2010

There are two ldap filters

The first LDAP filter - Part of the LDAP Process to tell the search
query what fields to search for

"sAMAccountName" - this is a widely used value in academic institutions.
You may wish to change this to something more suitable. 

The second LDAP filter - Another part of the LDAP searching process	

"cn=", this is a widely used value in academic institutions

LDAP password - A password that the account listed in the Ldap bind can
use to authenticate with. Lighter LDAP does not need this password

Bind_dn - a command to the LDAP server to tell it how to bind / limit
searching / authenticate

Yours might be - cn=staff,dc=kedst,dc=ac,dc=uk

I am not an expert on LDAP. Try downloading an LDAP browser, and seeing
what results you can get from that. I use softerra for testing LDAP
resources.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hartley,
Peter
Sent: 10 February 2010 12:21
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings

Hi

I have an AD ldap based on 'kedst.ac.uk' with staff under an OU Staff,
so what do I put in:

LDAP_filter - ?
Ldap_host - I assume the IP number of a domain controller
Ldap_port - I assume 389
Bind_pwd - ?
Basedn - is that dc=uk,dc=ac,dc=kedst
Bind_dn - ?

For Moodle we use an external MySQL database which contains the
necessary fields.

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College Information Systems Manager
King Edward VI College
Lower High Street
Stourbridge
West Midlands
DY8 1TD

Phone: +44-(0) 1384 398100
Fax: +44-(0) 1384 398123
email: its at kedst.ac.uk
web: www.kedst.ac.uk

Delivery or sat nav address:
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Duke Street
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-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 10 February 2010 12:04
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings

Can you tell us what information is missing? That would be very helpful.

How do you authenticate your moodle users? 

The moodle patch was created by Ron Mitchell - I need to Ron to chip in
if there are problems with it.

Xerte can run on IIS. We need to understand why your own situation is
failing.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hartley,
Peter
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:41 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings

I have found the installation guide very unfriendly and not supplying
the information required to fill in table entries.

The problem is that I do not know how Xerte actually works and with
users having to logon via LDAP - which I actually do not/cannot use -
there is little information on what to enter in LDAP fields, in say an
Active Directory situation.

I am trying to use the Moodle patch which is our preferred route and all
goes well until I edit or preview a project at which point I get a blank
screen. As I cannot get LDAP working I cannot logon to get a project
created and test it out.

The server I am using runs Moodle, Mediawiki and WordPress quite happily
and these installs were fairly straightforward and we just run a
standard setup.

I am coming to the conclusion that as it stands Xerte is simply
uninstallable in a standard Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP environment as I
cannot find what I have done wrong.

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Peter Hartley
College Information Systems Manager
King Edward VI College
Lower High Street
Stourbridge
West Midlands
DY8 1TD

Phone: +44-(0) 1384 398100
Fax: +44-(0) 1384 398123
email: its at kedst.ac.uk
web: www.kedst.ac.uk

Delivery or sat nav address:
King Edward VI College
Duke Street
Stourbridge
West Midlands
DY8 1YR

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 10 February 2010 10:17
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings

Pat tells me he has been in dialog with you over the last week to
resolve the issue. We'd like some feedback on why you've found this so
difficult. There is still some confusion, because we don't store login
data in the database.

Are you using Ron Mitchell's moodle patch, and is the problem with that?

Do you have any feedback on the installation guide, provided in the root
of the zip file?

Thanks,

J

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hartley,
Peter
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:34 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings

Hi

I am still trying to get Xerte to work after a week. The installation is
difficult and required me to use phpMyAdmin to get into the database. I
have set nothing in LDAP since we want to use Moodle to access it. You
can set the password - and everything else - in the database as it is
clear text.

Unlike Moodle Xerte uses the database to store MySQL logon information
and so on.

If you are using IIs and get Xerte to work tell me how you did it!

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