Installing and configuring ApacheDS

ApacheDS is an open source project, which provides directory server , which is LDAP v3 compliant. You can download ApcheDS here, which comes with eclipse based LDAP browser + LDAP server. So, you don't need to use extrernal LDAP browsers (eg: JXplorer)  to configure your directory server.

Steps

• Download , install and start the Apache Directory Studio™ (v1.5.3)

•  Go to 'File' menu and click 'New'. Select 'ApcheDS' server. Go to 'next' page.

•  Provide a unique name to identify your LDAP server instance.(eg: ServerA) Click 'Finish'
• You will see your newly created server @ servers panel.

•  Double click on ServerA's link.You will see a window which lists all options to configure the server.

•  At the 'General' tab, you can provide the port numbers for different protocols. Here leave the default port numbers as it is.

•  LDAP =10389
• LDAPS=10636

•  Go to 'servers' panel and click the 'start' button.

• Now, server instance created. We have to create a connection for that server.(ie:ServerA)
• Go to 'LDAP' menu and select 'New Connection'
• Provide 
• Connection name - Connection A
• Hostname - localhost
• Port no -10389 (This is the port number ServerA instance running)

• Click 'Next'. 
• Authentication Method - "Simple Authentication"
• Bind DN - "ou=system,uid=admin" (this is the one by default available partition and the user)
• Bind password - 'secret' (default  passoword)
• If you provide all the above parameters correctly , your connection will start successfully. You can see the available partitions at LDAP browser.

That is it for installation and starting the server.