SQLServer-CentOS 6

There are two different drivers you can use to connect to Microsoft SQL. We recommend the sqlsrv driver over dblib/freetds. However dblib/freetds is still supported.

SQLSRV

Note: These instructions were adapted from the official Microsoft PHP SQLSRV repo on Github[1]. Please consult this repo for additional information about this driver and its implementation options.

1. Install the ODBC 13 Driver

   • $ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/6/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-tools.repo

   • sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y yum install msodbcsql mssql-tools

   • sudo yum install unixODBC-devel

   • echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile

   • echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

   • source ~/.bashrc

2. Install tools used for PECL
   • Note: This instruction assumes you installed php 7.1 using the instructions in PHP Install in CentOS 6. If you didn't, just make sure you have the PHP Dev and PHP Pear packages from your repo of choice.

   • $ sudo yum install php71w-devel php71w-pear

3. Update GCC

   • $ sudo wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo

   • $ sudo yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils devtoolset-2-gcc-c++

4. Configure PECL to use the newer GCC

   • $ sudo pecl config-set bin_dir /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin

5. Install sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsr using PECL
   • sqlsrv on PECL is has been released from development to stable. As of the writing of these instructions, the latest verison 4.0.8.

     • $ sudo pecl install sqlsrv

     • $ sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv

6. Create the ini files

   • $ sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/sqlsrv.ini'

   • $ sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlsrv.ini'

7. Restart the PHP-FPM and Nginx or Restart Apache (whichever solution you're using.)
   • Nginx

     • $ sudo service php-fpm restart && sudo service nginx restart

   • Apache

     • $ sudo  service apache2 restart