Ubuntu = Not Boo.

Just as I suspected, reformatted the server, install Jaunty Server, and within 30 minutes had PHP5/Apache2/Mysql5/FreeTDS 0.8.2/and the MSSQL.so extension working.

Just affirming my idea that Solaris is overly difficult for absolutely no reason. It reminds me of the old school linux versus RedHat when that came out. All the fun of Linux with none of your files where you'd expect them.

Only issue that I ran into during the installation was the fact that Jaunty has no package for the MSSQL/php system. Easy to build by using this post..

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-986689.html

Just in case anyone needs to know.

Simply build as specified in the post, cp the libtds.a from the hidden directory to (Where you d/l FreeTDS)/lib

Give php's ./configure --with-mssql=/(location where you d/l FreeTDS)

example ./configure --with-mssql=/home/user/freetds-0.8.2

# make && make install

Easy as that!