configure PHP with LDAP server
 

Hi,

I believe I have posted the following question before last year but did not manage to get the solution to the problem.

I have installed PHP from the source on my Ubuntu Server 12.04.03, and it's working fine. Now, the problem I have is to make the PHP to work with LDAP server. I need the LDAP because I want to be able to run a global address book. The webmail I use, roundcube, keeps complaining that I need to support LDAP with my PHP.

So, I re-installed my PHP-5.5.10 with LDAP as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-ldap

With this, I got an error message "configure: error: Cannot find ldap libraries in /usr//usr/local/ssl/lib"

I then found that my ldap resides at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
libldap-2.4.so.2
libldap.a
libldap_r-2.4.so.2
libldap_r-2.4.so.2.8.1
libldap_r.a
libldap_r.so
libldap.so

Hence, I went to make a small change to my configuration:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-ldap=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

This time, I run it and received a different error: "configure: error: Cannot find ldap.h"

I found that my ldap.h is located in /usr/include

I'm not sure if I have installed LDAP correctly. The way I installed LDAP server is via the command "aptitude install slapd ldap-utils"

I wonder if I have missed any crucial steps here. I tried to find the solution on the Internet but to no avail so far.

Any help or direction would be very much appreciated.

Thank you

Hi,

You should also install libldap-2.4-2 and libldap2-dev if not already installed.
And I guess you need to specify /usr in the ./configure script options[
CODE]./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-ldap=/usr[/CODE]

Thank you for replying.

I believe they have been installed because if I run the below command, it said nothing to be installed.

$ aptitude install libldap-2.4-2 libldap2-dev
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

Also, I included "/usr" in the configuration script option as suggested, it still gives me the same error message
Output:
...
checking for LDAP support... yes
checking for LDAP Cyrus SASL support... no
configure: error: Cannot find ldap libraries in /usr//usr/local/ssl/lib.

Thank you

Looks like a known php bug
There is a workaround at the last post, but it works for 64bit systems, so you have to change it accordingly to suit your 32bit arch.