Installing phpLDAPadmin
In the previous recipe, we installed the LDAP service, but working with LDAP using the command line interface is quite a complex and lengthy task. This recipe covers the installation of a user interface, phpLDAPadmin. The phpldapadmin package provides an easy-to-use web-based user interface for the LDAP service.
Getting ready
Make sure that you have the LDAP service installed and running.
How to do it…
Follow these steps to install phpLDAPadmin:
- The Ubuntu package repository makes things easy again by providing the package for phpLDAPadmin. The web interface can be quickly installed in a single command as follows:
$ sudo apt-get install phpldapadmin - The installation process takes care of installing all dependencies including PHP and the Apache web server. It also creates necessary configurations and sets up Apache with the required settings for phpLDAPadmin. Once installation is complete, you can access the admin interface at
http://youServerIP/phpldapadmin. - Before...
