I am in the process of building a new Cognos environment. The Cognos portion of the environment has 3 servers; a Content Manager server, an Application server, and a Gateway server. Each machine is Windows Server 2012. Everything appears to be connecting to each other. If I point a browser to http://cogweb01/ibmcognos/isapi then I am presented with the welcome page. If I point a browser to http://cogweb01/ibmcognos I get 404.3 message stating the URL cannot be found. When I look at the address of 404.3 I see that it is trying to use cognos.cgi whereas the one that works uses cognosisapi.dll.
In the inst_cr_winux.pdf that is included in the install files I am directed to:
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11. Start IBM Cognos Configuration.
12. In the Explorer panel, click Local Configuration > Environment.
13. In the Gateway URI box, change the cognos.cgi part of the URI to
cognosisapi.dll.
However I do not have a Gateway URI box nor any values with cognos.cgi to change to cognosisapi.dll.
Any ideas what I've missed?
This link will help you.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/infrastructure/web_servers/page599.html
Check the heading 'Making the ISAPI Gateway the default'
You need to modify default.htm and index.htm files as specified.
Thank you, that helps quite a bit.
I'm still having an issue, but I think it might be IIS-related this time. http://servername/ibmcognos directs me to the isapi module and everything is peachy, but http://servername.domainname.tld/ibmcognos directs me to the cgi module...
So that's fun. Thanks again.
So that issue that was an issue is not really an issue once I clear the browser cache on the local machine.
So thanks again.