# SOAP configuration backend (deprecated)

You can share your configuration over the network using SOAP proxy system.

Note that SOAP is not a real configuration backend, but just a proxy system to access to your configuration over the network
SOAP has been deprecated. Prefer to use REST configuration backend

## Configuration

### First, configure your real backend

- On your main server, configure a File, SQL or LDAP backend
- Set SOAP parameter to true in the configuration using the manager: the portal will become a SOAP server
- Configure your web server to allow remote access. Remote SOAP access is disabled by default. You must change it as follow :

* in `portal-apache2.conf` :

    # SOAP functions for configuration access (disabled by default)
    <Location /index.fcgi/config>
        Require ip 192.168.2.0/24
    </Location>

* in `portal-nginx.conf` :

    # SOAP functions for configuration access (disabled by default)
    location /index.psgi/config {
      allow 192.168.2.0/24;
    }

### Next, configure SOAP for your remote servers

Change configuration in lemonldap-ng.ini :

    type         = SOAP
    ; Apache
    proxy        = https://auth.example.com/index.fcgi/config
    ; Nginx
    proxy        = https://auth.example.com/index.pcgi/config

You can also add some other parameters

    User         = lemonldap
    Password     = mypassword
    # LWP::UserAgent parameters
    proxyOptions = { timeout => 5 }