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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