Installing Cognos 8.4.1 on Windows 7 (Admin tab not working)

[akhattri]

Hi All,
I am doing a standalone installation of Cognos 8.4.1 on my Windows 7 (32 bit) machine. All the installation has been done and I can login through the cognos URL on localhost. Everything seems to work except the administration tab. It throws the following error:
"Error!       
PF-SRV-6119 Received remote fault: Failed to send HTTP request or read HTTP response
Details | Retry | Hide this message.
"
Was wondering if anybody has been able to successfully able to implement it on their machine?
I am using SQL Server 2008.

The IBM support doesn't seem to be helping much as they simply say Windows 7 is not compliant with Cognos 8.4.1.

Any help is appreciated.

[ducthcogtechie]

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config or to <cognos_home>/c8/cgi-bin/web.config.  Check those files for the following entry:

<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" />

[MFGF]

Thanks - very useful info!

You should probably update your Cognoise profile to reflect your current email address, by the way.

Cheers!

MF.

[smiley]

Email is set to hidden if i'm not mistaking.
And too busy to handle forum mail anyway  ;)

[MFGF]

Email is set to hidden if i'm not mistaking.
And too busy to handle forum mail anyway  ;)

No - I didn't mean the email address should be made visible.  What I meant is that dutchcogtechie is registered under an email address which is no longer valid, so it was simply a suggestion to update it to a current email address.

MF.

[andysin]

Hi, I was referring to the resolution mentioned above. However, I couldnt find both of the files in the said directories. My case is I'm installing it in XP. Please advice. Thanks

[MFGF]

Hi, I was referring to the resolution mentioned above. However, I couldnt find both of the files in the said directories. My case is I'm installing it in XP. Please advice. Thanks

You shouldn't have any issues with launching the Admin console under XP - it's just in Windows 7 (which ships with IIS7 as the web server).

Regards,

MF.