HOWTO: phpLDAPadmin on 10.04 Lucid Lynx

PLATFORM:
* Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid)

PREREQUISITES:
* A vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 server install.
* You have successfully installed a working LDAP server

Network overview;
* domain name: example.com
* ldap-server 10.1.1.5

Currently, the version of phpLDAPadmin that is in the Lucid repositories is a relatively old version (v1.1.07) which is not compatible with the version of PHP that actually ships with Lucid (v5.3.2).

Doh!

What we need to do is use the current version (v1.2.0.5) from Launchpad

wget https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security-proposed/+archive/ppa/+build/1744905/+files/phpldapadmin_1.2.0.5-1ubuntu1.10.04.1_all.deb

Install dependancies

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap php5-common php5-ldap ssl-cert

Install the package

sudo dpkg -i phpldapadmin_1.2.0.5-1ubuntu1.10.04.1_all.deb

Make a softlink to the downloaded version of php

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpldapadmin /var/www/phpldapadmin

Pointing phpldapadmin to your domain;

Edit config.php

sudo vi /etc/phpldapadmin/config.php

Find these lines;

$servers->setValue('server','base',array('dc=example,dc=com'));

$servers->setValue('login','bind_id','cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com');

Change the lines to suit your own network. In my case this would be like this;

$servers->setValue('login','bind_id','cn=admin,dc=tuxnetworks,dc=com');

Restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Test it by browsing to your ldap server at;

http://10.1.1.5/phpldapadmin/

and login using;

USER: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
PASS: your_password

Once you have logged in, expand the tree & you should see something like this;

+--> dc=example,dc=com (3)
---> cn=admin
+--> ou=groups (1)
+--> ou=people (1)
---> Create new entry here

And that's it, you're done!