# Phpldapadmin cannot be opened **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** odk-x-sync-endpoint\ **Created:** [January 28, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/phpldapadmin-cannot-be-opened/1629 "2022-01-28T14:34:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zettberlin](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/zettberlin/32/1025_2.png) [@zettberlin](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/zettberlin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/phpldapadmin-cannot-be-opened/1629/1 "2022-01-28T14:34:54Z")
Hello, I try to set up a user account for login in the web-ui. I tried to access phpldapadmin like this: w3m [https://localhost:40000](https://localhost:40000) it shows “Opening Socket…” for about a minute, then fails. Trying to open it in Firefox via [https://odk.ourdomain.org:40000](https://odk.ourdomain.org:40000) Shows “cannot connect” The web-ui shows up under our domainadress as it should. No errors to be found in the logs for the ldap or phpldap containers. Can I set up users on commandline(without phpldap)? If so: how exactly? ---
**Author:** ![elmps2018](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/elmps2018/32/105_2.png) [@elmps2018](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/elmps2018)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/phpldapadmin-cannot-be-opened/1629/2 "2022-01-28T14:55:27Z")
Hi @zettberlin! As you are new to the community, when you get a chance, please introduce yourself [here](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/introduce-yourself/642). I’d also encourage you to add a real picture as your avatar because it helps build community! The instructions for setup are here: [ODK-X Sync Endpoint — ODK-X Docs](https://docs.odk-x.org/sync-endpoint/) If you still have questions or issues if you could tell us a bit more about what you already did (e.g. “I am on the step where… and I already did X, Y, Z successfully …”) and what you are trying to do now that would be helpful. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![zettberlin](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/zettberlin/32/1025_2.png) [@zettberlin](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/zettberlin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/phpldapadmin-cannot-be-opened/1629/3 "2022-01-28T16:25:04Z")
Hello @elmps2018 thank you for the kind answer. As of now I am not sure, if my organisation will continue to use OKD[1]. So I do not know, if I will return here on a regular basis… I think, I could at least try to evaluate the installation, if I could send an ldif File using the command line and ldap tools to the LDAP server. So if, by any chance, someone has such a file, I would be very grateful, if you post it here. I could then write a PHP Application, that allows to set up a new user in a end user friendly form… [1] Why do we discuss to abandon ODK? In short: complexity. The Androidapp is in fact the sole reason why we still use ODK, if we find a way, to replace that app, we could collect the data in our own MySQL DB and browser, compute and visualise the data as we see fit. That would be about a thousand lines of code and maybe 2 weeks work. We really do not understand, why you use that complex swarm of containers. Aggregate was overkill already: I mean, we talk about grabbing some textdata and files via network and store it. If the staff in the field could be online allways, we would simply give them a bookmark to open in the browser and make a simple form builder for the local admin… We need to run ODK alongside LAMP and Geoserver, to set up the ports alone to make that work is a hardship, that would not be neccessary, if ODK would be a WAR to be deployed with Tomcat… I mean no offence, your work is much appreciated. But please consider to embrace minimalism… ---
**Author:** ![zettberlin](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/zettberlin/32/1025_2.png) [@zettberlin](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/zettberlin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/phpldapadmin-cannot-be-opened/1629/4 "2022-01-28T16:26:23Z")
BTW: of course I read the documentation. I am all into that old RTFM thing. I only ask questions, if I really do not find an answer myself. ---
**Author:** ![W\_Brunette](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/w_brunette/32/376_2.png) [@W\_Brunette](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/W_Brunette)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/phpldapadmin-cannot-be-opened/1629/5 "2022-02-08T17:36:34Z")
Did you open the port 40000 on your server? It won’t connect if the port is not open. However, you do not want to leave the port open. I generally use an SSH tunnel on port 40000 to connect. Also your comment is not minimal… Since Open Data Kit’s beginnings in 2009 most users do not know what a WAR is. “if ODK would be a WAR to be deployed with Tomcat…” If you are happy with just a WAR use that, you do not need the rest. At it’s base is a WAR feel free to use it, you need maven to compile the sync-endpoint-war module in the [sync-endpoint](https://github.com/odk-x/sync-endpoint) repo. Also we use Spring Security to connect to LDAP or ActiveX or whatever you like. The rest of it is automating so people who do not know what a WAR is setup. There is a script that creates the priviledges ODK-X needs on your database: [sync-endpoint-default-setup/db-bootstrap/bootstrap.sh at master · odk-x/sync-endpoint-default-setup · GitHub](https://github.com/odk-x/sync-endpoint-default-setup/blob/master/db-bootstrap/bootstrap.sh)