FreeTDS Development Group

[Robert Gonzalez <robert AT robert-gonzalez.com>]

The environment variable you want to set is FREETDSCONF and you are going to
want to add it not only to your own profile's environment vars but your web
servers as well.

I talk about it in this article:
http://www.robert-gonzalez.com/2009/02/18/building-the-php-ms-sql-server-extension-from-source-on-ubuntu-810/

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Ben Vogan <benvogan AT hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello All,
> I am trying to get freetds up and running in PHP 5.3.2 on Apache 2.2.14.  I
> have downloaded the latest snapshot and ./configured it.  Using tsql I am
> able to connecto to my SQL Server instance using the -S option so it appears
> that freetds is recognizing the server configuration.  However, when I try
> to call mssql_connect in PHP with the alias for my server it fails (no error
> message, it just returns false).  When I specify the DNS name for the server
> then mssql_connect call works just fine.  I tried editing the freetds.conf
> file to turn on logging but no log file appears in the /tmp directory.  I
> also tried explicity setting the TDSDUMP and TDSDUMPCONFIG environment
> variables but the log files are not created when I call mssql_connect from
> my PHP page.  I also tried setting the FREETDS environment variable to point
> to my freetds.conf file without success.
> Getting the PHP info from the webserver shows under a mssql heading:Active
> Persisten Links 0Active Links 0Library version FreeTDS
> Directive Local Value Master Valuemssql.allow_persistent        On
>  Onmssql.batchsize       0       0mssql.charset  no value        no
> valuemssql.compatability_mode        Off     Offmssql.connect_timeout
>  5       5mssql.datetimeconvert  On      Onmssql.max_links       Unlimited
>     Unlimitedmssql.max_persistent   Unlimited       Unlimitedmssql.max_procs
>        Unlimited       Unlimitedmssql.min_error_severity       10
>  10mssql.min_message_severity    10      10mssql.secure_connection       Off
>     Offmssql.textlimit      Server default  Server defaultmssql.textsize
>  Server default  Server defaultmssql.timeout     60      60
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,--Ben
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