Cognos 11.0.7/8 with IIS issues

[Skykit]

Hi all,

I am building a POC environment to see how we find 11.x with the plan of migrating from our currently 10.x platform but as a lot of threads seem to indicate, the install/config seems to be a fair bit different to the 8.x and 10.x days which I could do with my eyes closed.

The install itself is just in a self-contained environment running windows 2012 r2.  Nothing special and no authentication methods are setup such as AD/LDAP etc.  All I want is a full installation using anon login.

There are a number of documents flying around on here - I have followed most of them almost line by line with two outcomes:
Attempt 1: Link opens but I get an "Invalid login response".
Attempt 2: Link opens but blank screen.  With this one, I used the CA_IIS_Config_v1.09(11.02.17) file to auto config to see if it fills in anything I've missed.

In attempt 1, running http://vm-cognos:9300/bi/?perspective=home works fine and loads it up to the main page.  It's when I use http://vm-cognos/ibmcognos/bi it's just a a white screen in attempt 2.

Attempt 1 is no no longer available as I got rid of the environment altogether.

I suspect some of this might be to do with SSO?  Does this matter in my case given I am not using windows authentication ?

I do miss the days of just creating an alias to webcontent, adding cgi-bin folder and setting up issapi.dll!

I will be building a complete blank environment today so happy to try anything I get on here!

Thanks in advance,
AJ

[MFGF]

Hi all,

I am building a POC environment to see how we find 11.x with the plan of migrating from our currently 10.x platform but as a lot of threads seem to indicate, the install/config seems to be a fair bit different to the 8.x and 10.x days which I could do with my eyes closed.

The install itself is just in a self-contained environment running windows 2012 r2.  Nothing special and no authentication methods are setup such as AD/LDAP etc.  All I want is a full installation using anon login.

There are a number of documents flying around on here - I have followed most of them almost line by line with two outcomes:
Attempt 1: Link opens but I get an "Invalid login response".
Attempt 2: Link opens but blank screen.  With this one, I used the CA_IIS_Config_v1.09(11.02.17) file to auto config to see if it fills in anything I've missed.

In attempt 1, running http://vm-cognos:9300/bi/?perspective=home works fine and loads it up to the main page.  It's when I use http://vm-cognos/ibmcognos/bi it's just a a white screen in attempt 2.

Attempt 1 is no no longer available as I got rid of the environment altogether.

I suspect some of this might be to do with SSO?  Does this matter in my case given I am not using windows authentication ?

I do miss the days of just creating an alias to webcontent, adding cgi-bin folder and setting up issapi.dll!

I will be building a complete blank environment today so happy to try anything I get on here!

Thanks in advance,
AJ

Hi,

If you're not authenticating (and therefore not doing SSO) it's so much easier to use the embedded servlet gateway than to use IIS. One of the major changes between 8/10 and 11 is that you don't really need the web server unless there's a specific reason to use it. in your case it doesn't sounds like there is?

My advice here is to skip IIS entirely and after your install, just use http://<hostname>:9300/bi as the url

Cheers!

MF.

[Skykit]

Thanks as always MFGF
I have done just that and completed the install and it does load up so I guess this will do for now.
Just building another environment for 11.0.9 now - I assume the same rules apply for .09 too?  I think IIS became a habit so it's strange not to need/require it any longer :)

Thanks again

[MFGF]

Thanks as always MFGF
I have done just that and completed the install and it does load up so I guess this will do for now.
Just building another environment for 11.0.9 now - I assume the same rules apply for .09 too?  I think IIS became a habit so it's strange not to need/require it any longer :)

Thanks again

Hi,

Yep - it's the same story for all CA builds; you don't necessarily need a web server unless there's a specific reason for having one (eg single signon). It takes a little getting used to :)

Cheers!

MF.

[Skykit]

Noted :)
I've got both .08 and .09 environments up and running with the samples loaded so happy days.

[kennedto]

I am in same boat, but I would like to use https for user access.  Can that be done without a web server?

[MFGF]

I am in same boat, but I would like to use https for user access.  Can that be done without a web server?

Hi,

Yes, you can use secure sockets (https) without needing a web server.

Cheers!

MF.