Executing Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedure from PHP on Linux - Preparation

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First, we’ll prepare the source code that we are going to compile in this article.  I will be using all of the latest versions of Red Hat Linux, Apache, PHP and FreeTDS.

• Download Red Hat Linux 9.0 from http://www.redhat.com/download/products.html
• Download Apache Web Server 2.0.47 from http://httpd.Apache.org/download.cgi
• Download PHP 4.3.3 from http://www.php.net/downloads.php
• Download FreeTDS 0.61.2 from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/

Install Red Hat Linux 9.0 with all the necessary development packages (there is a good reason for a development box).  After the installation of Red Hat 9.0, you can check or install these packages from “Add/Remove Applications” applet. 

I prefer that you check all development modules (default selected packages are the numbers showing on the right/all packages).

Logon as root, make a folder on your hard drive called public, which you’ll use to save all your downloaded source code.

The next step, we will open a terminal window; unzip all these 3 files by issuing the following commands:

tar xvfz FreeTDS-0.61.2.tar.gz
tar xvfz httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz
tar xvfj php-4.3.3.tar.bz2

After you unzip them you can see 3 new folders appearing under your public folder.

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