I am a real newbie to Alfresco. I have downloaded alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.tar.gz and extracted it to /opt/alfresco on my kubuntu linux distribution. I can simply type ./alfresco.sh start in the /opt/alfresco directory and it successfully starts. I can see the start page in my web browser and login using admin/admin. So far so good
Now I am trying to get LDAP authentication to work. I stop alfresco (./alfresco.sh stop) and go to tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension and remove the .sample from the end of the ldap-authentication-context.xml.sample file. I dont change any of the details because I just want to see what the debug looks like.
I attempt to turn on debugging by going to tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes and adding the line log4.logger.org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap=debug
I start alfresco. I can no longer login with admin/admin but thats ok because I havent done chaining yet. However what I dont get is any debug information. I can type any user/password pair and I dont get any entries in /opt/alfresco/alfresco.log. There is no debug information regarding the failure to connect to an ldap server.
Hooray! I read a few more posts and actually read the file comments and figured this out. In the file ldap-authentication-context.xml at line 323 there is a note Commented out to disable. Uncomment this block and the debug flows like wine