Laravel connect to a SQL Server 2008 named instance

Question

I am trying to connect an SQL server from an Ubuntu machine, everythings works great except for named instances:

this works

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Answer 1

I finally found a solution, there were two problems :

• The SQL server wasn't listening on the good default port (my bad)
• Laravel (PDO ?) doesn't know how to handle (or at least I haven't found how) named instances, I have tried any possible combination (see Question)

So I finally used a combination of FreeTDS DSN with laravel in order to connect the SQL named instance server.

The /etc/freetds.conf DSN configuration:

[NAMED_INSTANCE]
   host = 127.0.0.1
   port = 55021

And in the laravel database adapter:

'webcmd' => array(
    'driver'   => 'sqlsrv',
    'host'     => 'NAMED_INSTANCE',
    'database' => 'db',
    'username' => 'usr',
    'password' => 'pwd',
    'prefix'   => '',
),

And that solved my problem, hope it'll help someone too