Configure LDAP certificate dir in PHP 5.5.x (Windows)

Question

Until version 5.4, when PHP was compiled from its source, LDAP extension was hard coded to look for its certificates in c:\openldap\sysconf folder. Since 5.5, this 'harcode' was replace by an environment variable called %SYSCONFDIR%. However i can't make LDAP extension point to the same dir it did before, no matter what i do! :(

In PHP 5.4, ldap_config.h

#define LDAP_SYSCONFDIR "c:\\openldap\\sysconf"

In PHP 5.5, ldap_config.h

#define LDAP_SYSCONFDIR "%SYSCONFDIR%"

Sorry for my bad english. Any clue? Thanks.

Answer 1

Download the latest version of PHP 5.5.

This has been resolved in the PHP 5.5.4 binaries from windows.php.net. The LDAP extension looks for "c:\openldap\sysconf\ldap.conf" as it had done in 5.4.

Answer 2

I ran a trace with Sysinternals Process Explorer and it revealed that php_ldap was attempting to open the file C:\Apache24\%SYSCONFDIR%\ldap.conf, where %SYSCONFDIR% is interpreted literally and not expanded from the contents of an environment variable. I have Apache installed in C:\Apache24, but obviously the exact path will vary depending on the name of your Apache folder. In the root folder of your Apache installation, create a folder named %SYSCONFDIR% (literally!) and put ldap.conf in there. That solved it for me.

Answer 3

It seems that it will be fixed by php team in the next release. See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65642