Hi everybody.. after so much of googling I am putting it here. The problem is .. I have used .htaccess for ldap authentication. It was working properly. but after I recompile bith Openldap and apache and php, it started giving this error. [ldap_search_ext_s for user failed][cant contact ldap server] The settings in all the three is OK. Can u please tell me what is the reason for this. Thanks in advance