Step by Step Guide to enable miniOrange WP LDAP Login plugin for WordPress

Step 1: Download and install miniOrange LDAP/AD Login forShared Hosting Environment

From your WordPress dashboard

• Click on PluginsAdd New tab.

• Search for cloud ldap. Install miniOrange LDAP/AD Login for Shared Hosting Environment.

• Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

• Download miniOrange LDAP/AD Login for Shared Hosting Environment.

• Go to PluginsAdd New.

• Click on Upload Plugin and choose the downloaded plugin zip.

• Click on Install Now and activate miniOrange LDAP/AD Login for the Shared Hosting
  
  Environment from your Plugins page.

Step 2: Setup miniOrange LDAP/AD Login for Shared Hosting Environment plugin

• Register/Login into miniOrange account.

• Once you are successfully logged in, LDAP configuration tab will be shown. Scroll down to configure LDAP settings.
• Select the directory server protocol (LDAP/LDAPS) from dropdown.
• Enter the hostname or IP address of the directory server.
• Enter the LDAP server port number.
• Enter the username and password to establish the connection to your LDAP server.

• Enter the LDAP Search Base and LDAP Search filter for your LDAP implementation.
• Search Base: Provide the distinguished name of the Search Base object. If you have users in different locations in the directory(OU's), separate the distinguished names of the search base objects by a semi-colon(;).
  eg. cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com
  eg. cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com; ou=people,dc=domian,dc=com.

• LDAP Search Filter: Enter the LDAP Search Filter. You will need to enter the username during LDAP login based on the search filter attribute configured.
  eg. (&(objectClass=*)(mail=?)), (&(objectClass=*)(|(samaccountname=?)(mail=?)))

• Click on Test Connection and Save.


• Once the connection is successful , you can perform test authentication to verify whether the LDAP Authentication is working fine or not by entering the username and password of any LDAP user account.



• Configure Enable login using LDAP settings to login in WordPress site with LDAP credentials.

• Enable LDAP login: This option is disabled by default. You can enable LDAP login once you are done with the "Test Connection & Save" in LDAP Connection Information.

• Authenticate users from both LDAP and WordPress: This option allows users to use either of WordPress credentials or LDAP credentials to login in WordPress site.

• Redirect after authentication: By default it is "None". You can select redirect option for users after login into wordpress site to "Home Page", "Profile Page", "Custom Page".

• Enable Auto Registering users if they do not exist in WordPress: This option is enabled by default and allow the users to register in WordPress after they login into the WordPress site with LDAP credentials.

• Protect all website content by login: You can protect the website contents by enabling this option. The users will need to enter their LDAP credentials while accessing any page of WordPress site.