title: Microsoft SQL Server with Laravel 5
body: <p>I've just pushed a laravel application to an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS - the company is using SQL Server for record management - and I cannot get Laravel to connect to that database for authentication or anything else.</p>
  
  <p>I'm getting errors that say that Laravel cannot find the drivers to connect.</p>
  
  <p>I've searched in too many places.</p>
  
  <p>There's no good tutorial that shows from start to finish, they're all using different packages and it's overwhelming.</p>
  
  <p>Has anybody here successfully connected a laravel application (running on Ubuntu) to SQL Server?</p>