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    <p>I have a number of servers running <a href="http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.2.6-nts-Win32.zip" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PHP 5.2.6 (non-thread-safe build)</a> on Windows 2003/IIS6 utilising FastCGI. </p> <p>I'm having some issues connecting to MS SQL 2000/2005 (MySQL connectivity is working fine, ASP/ASP.NET scripts can connect to MS SQL successfully as well). <a href="http://www.userscape.com/helpdesk/index.php?pg=kb.page&amp;id=13" rel="nofollow noreferrer">One solution</a> suggests copying the SQL Client Tools <code>ntwdblib.dll</code> file to the PHP extensions folder or installing all of the SQL Client Tools on the web server (which I'm reluctant to do).</p> <p>Another solution suggested is to use the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp/archive/2008/07/28/microsoft-sql-server-2005-driver-for-php-v1-0-has-released.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP</a>. This looks fine for writing greenfield apps but for applications such as phpBBS or WordPress this doesn't appear to work.</p> <p>For example, the following script:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $host = "mssqlhost"; $user = "phpbb2"; $password = "phpbb2"; $connect_sql_server = mssql_connect($host, $user, $password); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Fails with:</p> <blockquote> <p>PHP Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: mssqlhost in E:\AppsDev.NET_UK_Minds\phpSqlNC\www\test.php on line 6</p> </blockquote> <p>The goal is to allow PHP scripts to connect to both SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 which are running on different servers. I should also add that upgrading to a later version of PHP isn't an option at this time.</p> <p>What is the correct way to configure PHP on Windows 2003/IIS6 to connect to SQL 2000/2005?</p>
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    1. COThe fact that you get that message seems like it's working. Are you sure the host is OK (your typing MYSql host and using MSSql_connect)? Can you connect to the server with a client (to test connectivity).
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    2. COConnectivity is fine and verified using SQL management studio. This seems to be a known issue with PHP + MS SQL but there seems to be so many different stories about how to solve.
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