Cognos 8 BI server Installation on Standalone System

[phani1979]

Hai
Iam installing cognos8 bi server on windows 2003  with sqlserver sp4 edition

When i check the log file ,content manager is started
i had create two virtual diretory's in IIS , cognos8, cgi-bin path given  webcontent, cgi-bin

services started successfully, when i type the http://localhost/cognos8,
"
it says page cannot be displayed"

I stuck here, can anyone help me out of this problem..


Thank you
Sudhakar

[Blue]

Is the Cognos 8 service running?

[kattaviz]

Hi,

I had encountered the same problem. After stopping and starting again the Cognos8 from the Cognos Configuration it worked properly.

HTH

[kantamani]

Check IIS whether CGI is prohibited. In 2003 only ASP.NET is allowed rest are prohibited. You need to allow them