Hi Horalia. I am happy to help you. I have to go now and will probably not be able to help more until late tonight or tomorrow. Until then, at least, it would be a good idea for you to send your responses to the mailing list, instead of just me, so that everyone on the list is able to get more information and help you in ways I may not be able to.
as for the packet sniffer, look into ethereal. it's pretty easy to use but you'll have to learn a little about it. You'll want to use it to listen for packets between the two machines on whatever tcp port(s) MSSQL uses for communication. If the two machines are connected via a switch (ethernet switch, as opposed to a hub) it may be more complicated but that's one more detail to figure out. I have to go. Good luck. - Anna On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:31:13PM -0700, Horalia Rodriguez wrote: > Just to be sure I answer all your questions, I don't believe the php program > is > even trying to connect to the server. As you can see, I have some error > messages but those don't shop up. The web server and MSSQL server are on > different machines. Will you show me how to use packet sniffer? > > > > > > Horalia Rodriguez > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Anna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > CC: Horalia Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [RLUG] Help with Linux > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:37:32 -0700 > Hi Horalia. > > Have you run the phpinfo() function to see what you have installed and > how it's configured? if not, make a php file containing only this line: > > <? phpinfo(); ?> > > then study the result in a web browser. if you need help deciphering it, > post (pieces of the) the result here... or post a url to your phpinfo() > page so we can take a look. > > You want to start with debugging the basics. questions: is the php > program you have even trying to connect to the server? is it giving any > error messages on the page or in the logs? if the web server and db > server on different machines can you see any db traffic at all moving > between them with packet sniffer? are their any interesting logs on the > db server? > > - Anna > > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:24:37PM -0700, Horalia Rodriguez wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Sebastian Smith suggested that I send an e-mail here to see if I could > get some > > help to resolve my issue. I ll be very brief. > > > > I am trying to connect to a MSSQL server from a Fedora Core box through > php. I > > have already successfully installed freetds, but I can t get php to > work. > I > > have installed freetds several different ways to no avail. I believe > that > it is > > installed correctly because I can connect to the MSSQL server from the > terminal > > window and run a query successfully. I have also tried installing php > using ./ > > configure with-mssql= freetds-path with no success. Could someone send > me > > detailed instructions on how to do this? I m very new to Linux and have > been > > struggling to get this working for the past month. I ve been dreaming > about > > rpms, unixODBC, php code, you name it. I have reloaded Fedora more times > that I > > care to remember, so any suggestions will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Horalia Rodriguez > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check the weather anywhere, anytime - just type "weather" from MSN Search _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
