Ldap_Connect Localhost

[shockwavecs]

Hey,

I was hoping to get an idea of what points to what when PHP and ldap_connect are used.

We had an outage that affected the logins across the site. For some reason the ldap_connect is setup to use localhost.

What does localhost refer to?

- /etc/ldap.conf and grab the URI LDAP entries?

- Or does it mean that the local machine is the ldap server that it will refer to?

 

from here I got the idea to use this:

 

 

<?php

$ldaphost = "ldap1.site.domain.com ldap2.site.domain.com ldap1.othersite.domain.com";

$ldapconn = ldap_connect($ldaphost);

?>

 

or maybe

$ldaphost = "localhost ldap1.site.domain.com ldap2.site.domain.com ldap1.othersite.domain.com";

 

 

 

 

It seems like localhost is the issue and needs to be changed. I just want to verify this before making any site wide changes, etc.

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Edited October 15, 2012 by shockwavecs