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Re: Is there anything in LDAP that works similar to HTTP's virtual hosting.

To: John Lewis <oflameo2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is there anything in LDAP that works similar to HTTP's virtual hosting.
From: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:04:40 +0200
Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
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Hi John,

LDAP is a protocol, but implementations like OpenLDAP can distinguish
"virtual hosts" based on trailers of the distinguishedName of each
query.  So, you would setup dc=example,dc=com for one "virtual host" and
dc=example,dc=org for another.  When you are looking for
uid=john,ou=Personnel,dc=example,dc=com you would end up in the first
"virtual host's" subtree.  In OpenLDAP, it's called a backend database.

-Rick

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- Is there anything in LDAP that works similar to HTTP's virtual hosting.
  - From: John Lewis <oflameo2@gmail.com>

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