Web authentication using LDAP and Apache?

Question

I am working on a project of setting up a web administered inventory database for my work (or if they don't want it then i'll enjoy learning about it) and hit the problem of allowing only authorized users to access the website (In its testing/development phase, I allow all people to navigate to the website to add entries to the database and query it). I am trying to make it so only particular users in the domain (Active Directory) are allowed to access the website after they are queried about their credentials. I read that Apache (I am using a LAMP server) has a means of asking visitors to the website to provide LDAP credentials in order to gain access to the site, but I wasn't sure if that was exactly what I was looking for. If anyone has experience in the LDAP configurations for Apache that I mentioned or any other means of securely authenticating with websites I would greatly appreciate advice or a direction to go

Thank you!

Answer 1

apache has a module - mod_authnz_ldap for ldap authentication.

There are many how-to's describing how to implement it.

http://www.held-im-ruhestand.de/software/apache-ldap-active-directory-authentication http://yonitg.com/apache-active-directory-authentication/ http://www.netexpertise.eu/en/apache/authentication-against-active-directory.html

Docs for the module: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html