[horde] CVS Head working, now LDAP and virtual domains

[Edwin Culp]

Quoting "John R. Hillman" <john at ridewide.com>:

> OK-
>
> The problem with CVS HEAD and autogenerating the conf.php for horde seems to
> be resolved.  On to the next issue...
>
> We are hosting multiple domains and using LDAP for our authentication and
> preferences store.  The LDAP tree looks as follows:
>
> O=internet
>   |
>   |-ou=Administrators
>   |  |
>   |  |-cn=Manager
>   |
>   |-dc=net
>   |  |
>   |  |-dc=domain1
>   |  |  |
>   |  |  |-ou=People
>   |  |  |  |
>   |  |  |  |-mail=user at domain1.net,ou=People,dc=domain1,dc=net,o=internet
>   |
>   |-dc=com
>   |  |
>   |  |-dc=domain1
>   |  |  |
>   |  |  |-ou=People
>   |  |  |  |
>   |  |  |  |-mail=user at domain1.com,ou=People,dc=domain1,dc=com,o=internet
>   |
>   |-dc=org
>   |  |
>   |  |-dc=domain1
>   |  |  |
>   |  |  |-ou=People
>   |  |  |  |
>   |  |  |  |-mail=user at domain1.org,ou=People,dc=domain1,dc=org,o=internet
>   |
>   |-dc=us
>   |  |
>   |  |-dc=domain1
>   |  |  |
>   |  |  |-ou=People
>   |  |  |  |
>   |  |  |  |-mail=user at domain1.us,ou=People,dc=domain1,dc=us,o=internet
>
> Horde, using Imp authentication and the LDAP Prefs configuration, seems to
> want all of the users under a single Entry (say, ou=People,o=internet), but
> for administrative reasons, that is not possible in our situation.
>
> Before I go monkeying about in Imp and Horde configurations (and possibly
> LDAP.php), has this setup been done before?  I did search the MARC Horde
> archive, but couldn't find anything relevant.  I did not try the Imp archive
> but will check that next.  What I would like to know is the best and easiest
> (hopefully not mutually exclusive properties<g>) way to handle this.  If
> someone can suggest which files need to be re-coded, I would greatly
> appreciate it.

Personally I would use nameVirtualHost for each domain and
then parse the $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] variable, asigning
each element from the hostname.    You can do it
anywhere/everywhere ;-)  Off hand I'm not sure where you
might need it but at least in horde/config and turba/config

Good luck,

ed