I have been trying to get LDAP Authentication configured on our MediaWiki installation I am bringing up on our network. We are confguring with enctype = ssl in our ldap.json file over port 636. Have tried other combinations, but this seems to get me closest to fully functional. I am using LDAPAuthentication2/PluggableAuth and all the other required extensions in the LDAP stack.
I can sometimes log in properly, but will almost immediately get the following error if I try again with another browser after logging out, or even with the same browser in a subsequent attempt.
"MWException from line 169 of /var/www/mediawiki-1.34.2/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/Client.php: Could not bind to LDAP: (-1) Can't contact LDAP server”
It will work intermittently, but then fail. We believe the issue may have to do with a load balanced LDAP server. Not sure if anyone else has had either success or intermittent failures with hitting a load balanced Ldap server for authentication.
Would like to know if there is anything I need to set to possibly accommodate this if this is the issue. I have been told by our System Administrators that their load balancer is configured properly and has the proper Persistence, etc.. settings set properly, and that other applications that hit it work fine.
Has anyone had any similar issue or could offer any advice?
Thank you.