Which LDAP module should I use?

[mark_l_sanders]

Hi - I'm trying to get LDAP to work...

I've installed xampp latest for windows; that version of Apache is compiled with authnz_ldap_module, and I can get commands written in the main conf file to work OK.

Surprisingly (call me naive), the Linux version of XAMPP contains an Apache that is not compiled with this but comes with auth_ldap instead. My commands (in a .htaccess file) don't work here, but cause a system error.

So - which ldap module is recommended; should I just go ahead and recompile Apache on linux with authnz_ldap_module?

Does anyone have a link that'll tell me how to recompile Apache? I'm using the latest Ubuntu distro.

thanks