Posted by "Frank M. Kromann" on 10/07/05 05:51

Hi Rick,

FreeTDS is still a fast moving target and so is PHP in some areas. Getting
pre-compiled RPM's would often force you to run older versions. Compiling
from source enables you to keep up to date with the latest features and
bug-fixes. If you are running this on multiple computers it's not a big
task to copy all files from one test/development box to a number of other
systems, as long as the configurations are the same.

- Frank

> Knowing that I'm not the only one to want to connect to Microsoft SQL
> Server on Windows from PHP and Apache on Linux, I'm seeking advice.
>
> I set up a proof-of-concept application, using Gentoo Linux (with which

> I'm most familiar) as my base. Being a compile-from-source distribution

> with a lot of packages available, I simply had to set the "mssql" USE
> flag and emerge freetds and php. Voila; connectivity.
>
> Not surprisingly, now that my organization has decided to go with PHP
> on Linux, management wants to use a commercially supported distribution

> (Red Hat or Novell/SUSE). I was surprised to discover that I couldn't
> find RPMs for freetds, nor could I find php-mssql RPMs, and the php
> RPMs available in the yum repositories weren't compiled with
> --with-mssql.
>
> Is my only recourse to build freetds and php from source? I'm certainly

> capable of doing it, but I won't be the server administrator and I
> think it defeats what management wants to accomplish with a
> commercially supported distro (package management with easy updates).
>
> Is anybody in a similar environment that has an easy solution, or can
> anybody offer advice?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick
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