CentOS 6.7 and Windows MSSQL connection - FreeTDS and PHP - tsql

Question

I searched for answers related to my question but not found what I'm looking for.
I have server with Linux CentOS 6.7. I need to connect to MS SQL Server 2005 on Windows Small Business Server 2003. In CentOS I installed FreeTDS and I managed to connect to SQL Server from terminal using this command:
# TDSVER=7.0 tsql -H ServerIPAdress -p 1433 -U username -P password
As far as I know this command bypass settings in freetds.conf.
Now I need to connect from PHP script. I'm using PDO extension and I tried this DSN string:
$db = new PDO("dblib:version=7.0;host=ServerIPAdress;dbname=Database;","username","password");
This leads me to first error:
Could not find driver
Ok, I understand that - my PHP 5.3.3 installation doesn't have installed PDO driver dblib.
My question: How can I install pdo_dblib driver in CentOS? Many tutorials and answers suggest to install through this command:
yum install php5-sybase
But that package doesn't exist:
No package php-sybase available.
If I check tsql configuration with command
tsql -C
I get these output:
Version: freetds v0.95
freetds.conf directory: /usr/local/etc
MS db-lib source compatibility: no
Sybase binary compatibility: no
Thread safety: yes
iconv library: yes
TDS version: 5.0
iODBC: no
unixodbc: yes
As I understand I need to configure FreeTDS:
./configure --enable-msdblib --with-pdo-dblib=/usr/local
But how can I configure FreeTDS after instalation? I tried to remove current version but I can't find way to do that. Also I tried to install another version but configuration doesn't change.
Any advice are appreciated.

Answer 1

When I run command # odbcinst -j I can see this output:
unixODBC 2.3.0
DRIVERS ...........: /usr/local/etc/odbcinst.ini
SYSTEM DATA SOURCES: /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini
FILE DATA SOURCES..: /usr/local/etc/ODBCDataSources
USER DATA SOURCES..: /root/.odbc.ini
SQLULEN Size.......: 8
SQLSETPOSIROW Size.: 8
Content of my freetds.conf:
# $Id: freetds.conf,v 1.12 2007/12/25 06:02:36 jklowden Exp $
#
# This file is installed by FreeTDS if no file by the same
# name is found in the installation directory.
#
# For information about the layout of this file and its settings,
# see the freetds.conf manpage "man freetds.conf".
# Global settings are overridden by those in a database
# server specific section
[global]
# TDS protocol version
tds version = 7.0
# Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes
# (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system)
; dump file = /tmp/freetds.log
; debug flags = 0xffff
# Command and connection timeouts
; timeout = 10
; connect timeout = 10
# If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client
# is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
# Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
text size = 64512
# A typical Sybase server
[egServer50]
host = symachine.domain.com
port = 5000
tds version = 7.0
# A typical Microsoft server
[MSServer]
host = 192.168.1.55
port = 1433
tds version = 7.0
odbcinst.ini:
[FreeTDS]
Description = FreeTDS v7.0
Driver = /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so
UsageCount = 1
odbc.ini:
[MSSQL]
Driver = FreeTDS
Description = MSSQL Server Connection
TDS_Version = 7.0
Trace = No
Server = MSServer
Port = 1433
Database = MyDatabase
Username = DOMAIN\MyUsername
Password = MyPassword
I can make connection with isql command when I specify username and password:
# isql -v MSSQL "DOMAIN\MyUsername" MyPassword
But if I omit username and password isql generate error:
[S1000][unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to data source
[01000][unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Adaptive Server connection failed
I suspect that my username make problems because I have to use DOMAIN name followed by backslash before username when I connect to SQL Server 2005.
UPDATE:
I succesfully made connection in PHP and now I can run queries. I added this line on top of my script: putenv("FREETDSCONF=/usr/local/etc/freetds.conf")
Why is this necessary?