This is related/similar to bug 28385. Apologies if this should be posted there instead. The fix there only works if ldapserver id is set to "ldapserver" and not anything else (such as <ldapserver id="ad.domain.com">). In previous versions ldapserver id could be set to anything. There is nothing in the release notes noting this behavior change so it seems to be a bug. To reproduce simply set ldapserver id to something else and restart plack. There should be lots of errors in the plack-error.log, most useful is: No ldapserver "hostname" defined in KOHA_CONF: /etc/koha/sites/instance/koha-conf.xml The problem is in Auth_with_ldap.pm, specifically: if ( exists $ldap->{ldapserver} ) { $ldap = $ldap->{ldapserver} or die ldapserver_error('id="ldapserver"'); } The code is assuming the id is "ldapserver". Better behavior would be to evaluate $ldap and find what the id is set to. It should be the only key in $ldap, and then do: $ldap=$ldap->{$ldapserveridname} The easy fix is just to set the id to ldapserver, but again, that isn't documented anywhere. I can probably provide a patch in in the next few days.
Thanks for reporting this. My proposed fix for this is in comment 7 on original bug: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28385#c7 POD documentation in C4::Auth_with_ldap does suggest that id should be ldapserver, so I made assumption that all configurations will have it, which in retrospect seems to be incorrect.
(This is a totally unrealted tangent but curious how the University of New Hampshire uses Koha! Doesn't seem to be for the university library?)
For Dobrica - thanks for the response. It doesn't really matter to me if this gets 'fixed' or not - I put the bug in so other people could find it if they had the same situation. Making the change in koha-conf.xml is trivial. You're right that the documentation has id="ldapserver", but I don't think it is clear that it has to be set that way. I read the id="ldapserver" as variable - you'd set this to whatever you wanted to call your ldapserver (in our case the short server name). This seems to fit better with HTML and XML in general - you wouldn't have <div id="div">, you'd want the ID to be unique to set it apart. But in this case there aren't going to be multiple ldapservers, so maybe it doesn't matter. David - you're right - it is not for the main/official libraries. We have a few 'media lab' spaces that circulate AV gear - still and video cameras, microphones, etc. They found the library's system (millennium, I think) didn't work well for this sort of equipment. They did the research and settled on Koha - it has worked well for them and hasn't been too much work for me as an administrator.