Hi,
I have been trying to figure this out on and off now for weeks and am having to resort to polling the audience…..
The situation is this…
I installed a new server with MS Server 2008R2…installed and configured IIS and PHP (using the Microsoft platform installer) and IIS and PHP seem to be working just fine. I can pull up a php page with the phpinfo fine and php pages/files seem to work just great.
I am trying to then setup and configure phpbb. When I load up the installer via a web browser, I get to the requirements page and it gives the the 3 detected available database options… MySQL, MySQL with MySQLi and MSSQL via ODBC while the MSSQL Server 2000+ is left marked as ‘unavailable’
I am admittedly no expert web developer/admin but this has got to be pretty straightforward.
In the php.ini file the mssql extension is loaded
[PHP_CURL]
extension=php_curl.dll
[PHP_GD2]
extension=php_gd2.dll
[PHP_GETTEXT]
extension=php_gettext.dll
[PHP_IMAP]
extension=php_imap.dll
[PHP_MBSTRING]
extension=php_mbstring.dll
[PHP_MSSQL]
extension=php_mssql.dll
[PHP_MYSQL]
extension=php_mysql.dll
[PHP_MYSQLI]
extension=php_mysqli.dll
[PHP_OPENSSL]
extension=php_openssl.dll
[PHP_PDO]
extension=php_pdo.dll
[PHP_PDO_MYSQL]
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
[PHP_PDO_SQLITE]
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll
[PHP_SOAP]
extension=php_soap.dll
[PHP_TIDY]
extension=php_tidy.dll
[PHP_XMLRPC]
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll
[PHP_ZIP]
extension=php_zip.dll
[PHP_EXIF]
extension=php_exif.dll
However in phpinfo it does not list the mssql information as it does for all of the other loaded extensions.
Any Ideas on what I could be missing, I do not have much hair left to rip out.
Thanks!
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
1209 A Biomed Phys Sci
517-884-5469