Error on logon

[charlie]

Hi

I get the following error when i go the cognos administration link.


SOAPFaultException
   DPR-ERR-2101 Your request was invalid. Please contact your administrator.

Note: Text file attached for when i see details.

Any ideas what might be the problem?

Charlie

[MFGF]

What OS do you have Cognos 8 installed on?  Also, which web server are you using?

MF.

[charlie]

My OS is Windows 2008 server. IIS 7 is used in web server.

[MFGF]

Thanks,

I have seen this issue with IIS 7 before (although on a Windows 7 machine).  Try the following:

Manually edit  C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config. Check for the following entry: (CGI_Cognos is what ever you called your module mapping to get Cognos CGI running in IIS)
<add name='CGI-cognos' path='*.cgi' verb='*' modules='CgiModule' resourceType='Unspecified' />

and add allowPathInfo='true' to it like this:
<add name='CGI-cognos' path='*.cgi' verb='*' modules='CgiModule' resourceType='Unspecified' allowPathInfo='true' />

Regards,

MF.

[charlie]

Thanks for the help MF. It works.