PHP with MSSQL support

[Rick Stevens]

Chris Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was recently trying to install phpBB on a fresh installation of Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux, and was hoping to connect it to our central
> database server that is running MSSQL. When installing phpBB, I
> received an error stating "The PHP configuration on your server
> doesn't support the database type that you chose."

MSSQL, as in Microsoft SQL?

> So I'm wondering if the Red Hat PHP installation supports connections
> to MSSQL by default. (My guess is that it doesn't.) Any ideas what I
> would need to do to make the connection between PHP and MSSQL?
> 
> I've looked briefly at FreeTDS, but it looks like I might need to
> reinstall PHP from source in order to make that work...

Yup, I believe you do.  It's been a long time since I tried to do that.
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