CGI to ISAPI with LDAP

[jejones75]

I have been all through the docs and have found where switching from CGI to ISAPI is as simple as two steps:
1. Change the cognos.cgi portion of the gateway URI property (in cognos configuration) to cognosisapi.dll and
2.  Specify the ISAPI URI http://host_name/cognos8/isapi in your browser

I'm assuming I'm running into issues because we have another layer of complexity with our LDAP (Novell) authentication.  I got the URI property changed in configuration, but specifying the ISAPI is a bit more tricky - or maybe I just have no idea what I'm doing, which is a distinct possibility!

Thanks

[kolonell]

what exactly are your issues then ? But it is almost safe to say that your LDAP shouldn't affect this in any way. The only other possibility I can think of is that the web extension for isapi has not been allowed (in IIS manager)

[jejones75]

Authentication issues aside, when I browse to:

https://host_name/cognos8/isapi

like it says in the doc, the page won't render (error 404).

When I browse to:

https://host_name/cognos8, just like I used to, I still have the .cgi extension.

[smiley]

What type of webserver do you have?

[jejones75]

Bear with me, I thought I was just going to be modeling & writing reports!  I'm learning the architechture/hardware as I go along.


MS IIS, v. 6.0, I think since the OS is Server 2003.

[smiley]

Open IIS manager.
At the left menu side at the bottom, there is a line called "Web Server Extentions".
By default isapi is disallowed, and needs to be allowed.

[jejones75]

Geez...that did it.  Thank you very much.  I think that might have been an important thing to include in the doc, but what do I know!!