LDAP not functioning in CS 2008 Enterprise

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Jason Kitch Posted: Fri, Apr 18 2008 12:00 PM

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I'm stumped. Now that I've got my license installed and up and running, I went on to configure the LDAP security, following the directions as they were given. The new DLLs were put in bin, and the new login.aspx was placed in it's correct home as well.

In my cs.config I also have logging turned on so I could get any reports of LDAP query/connection issues.

The first thing that happened, is I realized that a crucial step was missing from the documentation because the login.aspx page complained about the CSSecurity Tags.

So, using a line I previously used, I added the following into my web.config.

            <add tagPrefix="CSSecurity" namespace="CommunityServer.Controls" assembly="Telligent.CommunityServer.SecurityModules" />

After this, the login.aspx page correctly loaded. However, when attempting to login, the page just comes back every time as if nothing was actually done with the module. No log file is getting created in my Web root, so it is looking like the module is never even getting called.

I have also checked my exceptions log in the app and see nothing that could relate to this either.

So what's the missing mojo that needs to be added to actually get LDAP authentication up and running?

Thanks!

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Ken Robertson replied on Fri, Apr 18 2008 12:15 PM

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Jason,

I'll be looking more closely at the LDAP module to day.  Most of the work thus far has been by Xander, though he has been out recently on-site with a customer.

Ken

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Jason Kitch replied on Mon, Apr 21 2008 12:36 PM

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Happen to find anything yet? Hopefully it's nothing more than a configuration mix up that I could quickly put in.

Also, I haven't been able to check yet... but it sure would be nice if all the actual LDAP Auth routines that used the config were not marked as private. That way I could re-use this to make changes to the metablog api stuff so it could still work. Otherwise, I'm basically going to have to write a custom version of code that mimicks this again. Sorta silly IMO.

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Ken Robertson replied on Mon, Apr 21 2008 6:09 PM

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Tom should be contacting you (or someone) soon regarding the LDAP module in CS 2008.  Official public release/support for the LDAP module is being postponed until an up coming point release, giving more time for testing against CS 2008, as well as integrating licensing and such.