Hello everyone,
I have just installed for the first time on a server the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Server. I have made all necessary changes on the Cognos Configuration as well as on IIS.
I have a server with Windows 2003 Server, IIS and SQL Server ( all installation are on the same pc).
When I am trying to access the http://localhost/cognos8 I get the following error:
Service Unavailable
The following have been completed:
- Created cognos8 virtual directory pointing to <c8 location>/webcontent folder, Permission: Read
- Created a cgi-bin VD under cognos8 VD pointing to <c8 location>/cgi-bin folder, permissions: Read and Execute
- Verified CGI applications aren't 'prohibited.'
- Added the index.html in the cognos8 VD
Browsing the VD in IIS also reports Service Unavailable.
Please help.
Are you sere the web server is running? What do you get when you hit http://localhost/ ?
http://localhost/ shows Service Unavailable.
I saw this error in the Event Log:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{A9E69610-B80D-11D0-B9B9-00A0C922E750}
to the user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (S-1-5-20). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
Does that error offer some insight into the problem?
Sounds like your IIS server has been locked down. Talk to your Windows Admins. There are so many ways in which this could have been done.
I ditched IIS and installed Apache. Now it works fine.
Thanks!