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Basic User Guide
1.1 - What Apache DS is

1 - How to begin

This chapter helps you to set up a server, with the minimal configuration options being explained. That should be enough to get a running server.

This user guide is not intended to be a LDAP guide : there are some excellent tutorials or books, we won’t try to challenge them !

Table of content

  • 1.1 - What Apache Directory Server is
  • 1.2 - Some Background. Directories, directory services and LDAP
  • 1.3 - Installing and starting the server
  • 1.4 - Basic configuration tasks
    • 1.4.1 - Changing the server port for LDAP
    • 1.4.2 - Changing the admin password
    • 1.4.3 - Adding your own partition
    • 1.4.4 - Configure logging
    • 1.4.5 - Enable and disable anonymous access
  • 1.5 - About the sample configurations and sample directory data
  • 1.6 - Backup/Restore
 
Basic User Guide
1.1 - What Apache DS is
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