Thanks to Chintana and Shankar for working with me through the installation of SH PHP and WSF on Linux talking to a MSSQL server. You are both Stonehenge MVPs!
Finally, After I changed the php.ini to show "only errors" and "not warnings" and rebooted the system all is working. In the end game I had introduced the wrong config endpoint during debugging. Thanks again Shankar and Chintana Drew
