problem in IIS cognfiguration

[svenkat16]

Hi,
several times I installed the Reportnet and Cognos8 and successfully operated, but for the first time I facing the problem in the IIS I had created 2 Virtual directories 1. c8 and given read permission, 2. cgi-bin with read and Exicute permissions. but when I tried to open cognos on localhost it is giving the error as the page cannot be displayed. I coppied the Gateway URI and tried but failed, Cognos services are successfully running and I am not able to open the cognos connection.

Please give your suggestions.

Thanks
Venkatesh

[MFGF]

Hi,

Have you installed C8 on a Windows 2003 server?  If so, some of the IIS settings may need redefining to get your C8 application to work.  For example, check to see if IIS is prohibiting CGI - you may find this is the default on 2003.

Regards,

MF.

[jwilkinson]

The answer to this is that you need to go to web service extensions in IIS if you are using version 6 or greater and Allow "All Unknown CGI Extensions". This is because by default IIS 6 only allows static web pages to work in order to protect the server from needless security risk.

Note this is the "easy mode" method, ideally you need to lock things down by Allowing only the specific cognos.cgi file, you can find this in the cgi-bin folder using show all files. If you are using cgis in addition to Cognos you will also need to Allow the relevant cgis and isapis for those.

Hope that helps.