Cognos 8 Installation, Gateway, Dispatcher errors

[vanir]

Hi:

Initally i had db issues...now all that is solved but i have new issues with the installation. when i try the

http://localhost/cognos8

address i get this error "The Cognos Gateway is unable to connect to the Cognos BI server"

when i try the external dispatcher URI, i get the cognos connection screen but none of the images are displayed and none of the links work.

i'm thinking tat the IIS is not talking to tomcat properly. OS: windows server 2003
db: SQL 2005
webserver: IIS 6.0
appln server: tomcat 4.1.27

thanks in advance.

 

[misscognos]

You are right, it is an IIS issue.

You are using win 2k, so you have IIS 6.

I assume you have created the 3 virtual directories correctly in IIS.

Now, with IIS 6, right click on web extensions and add a new extension called "cgi" and point to it to cognos.cgi (assuming you are not using ISAPI).

Once it is added, select the newly added row, and click "allow". Once you're done, i think you will be up and running.