On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>>I am looking at LDAP module for Apache httpd for authentication. The >>>'yum install' gives me 'mod_authz_ldap.i386 0:0.26-9.el5_5.1', whereas >>>on Apache documentation site I find mod_authNz_ldap module. Both > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ > >>>modules appear to be different looking at available directives. Any >>>clues or suggestions on which module should be used? Where can I find >>>documentation for mod_authz_ldap? >> >>Look inside your httpd.conf file, it will answer that one for you. RHEL's httpd >>supports ldap auth as shipped. >> >> >>What I did in my httpd.conf file; > > /snip > > Your question was about modules, in your httpd.conf you find a list of _modules_ > it loads... That should remove the ambiguity around which documentation to follow. > > See the line: > LoadModule authnz_ldap_module modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so Except that these are often in /etc/httpd/conf.d/[service].conf. This is certainly the case for mod_dav_svn and mod_perl and numerous other setups. Don't edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf directly if you can safely avoid it: work in the module-specific configurations files, which makes the configurations a lot more, well, modular.