Powerplay web

[canhe]

Hello,

I was wondering does anyone know how to get the cubes viewable over the web. I have the cubes on the powerplay enterprise server and working but I cannot view them over the web.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get started, I have installed a web server, and it is working but I cannot get the web address to open the table of content etc
Am i missing something here ?????

Any ideas
canhe

 

[Draoued]

Have you created in the web server the needed alias ( Cognos , cgi-bin , help ) see documentation ??

The url that should be use is

http://servername/cognos/cgi-bin/ppdscgi.exe

 

[canhe]

Hi Draoued,

Thanks for the reply

Do I need a to install a web server or not. I have installed Apache but do I need this ?? Is powerplay enterprise server enough???

Thanks
Canhe

 

[flex13]

YOu need to have a webserver and a PowerPlay Enterprise Server gateway installed on that webserver.

 

[Draoued]

Apache server needs to be configured.
Apache Web server is only supported in UNIX ,and here are the supported version :
Apache 1.3 UNIX Compatible
Apache 1.3.26 UNIX Active
Apache 2.0.39 UNIX Compatible


As you mentioned PPES server is working ( wondering how you know that ) and web server installed , then it s just a matter of defining the Alias in the Web server

Cognos = Path/cognos/cer3/webcontent ( Read only)
cgi-bin = Path/cognos/cer3/cgi-bin (Execute )
Help = Path/Cognos/cer3/documentation ( Read only)

Then starting the service again.

 

[canhe]

Hi Draoued,

There is a windows version of apache. Got it off the website. I assume PPES windows support Apache windows????

The way i know that powerplay enterprise server is working is I create a remote connection to powerplay enterprise server and I can see the cubes.


I have been creating a virtual host to point to webcontent but i will try what you said

Thanks
canhe

 

[Draoued]

As I said Cognos doesn't support Apache on Windows plateform ( See :

http://support.cognos.com/en/support/products/series71_software_environments.html)

It can be working , or not at all.

 

[Draoued]

Hi Canhe ,
I have installed in WindowsXP Professional an Apache 1.3.31(win32) with Upfront and PPES. They are up and running.

I followed the instruction given in the UNIX installation guidelines.
Don't try to call Cognos support with such installation as it is still unsupported environmnent.

Maybe you have tried it already ??

Below the Alias definition to be added to the httpd.conf

ScriptAlias /cognos/cgi-bin " cer2_location/cgi-bin"
<Directory " cer2_location/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
</Directory>
Alias /cognos/help "cer2_location/documentation"
<Directory " cer2_location/documentation">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /cognos " cer2_location/webcontent"
<Directory " cer2_location/webcontent">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

 

[flex13]

Just because something is 'NOT supported' doesn't mean that it won't work. It simply means that if you run into a code problem, there will be no fix forthcoming as there would be in a supported environment. In fact, there are quite a few clients that run Apache on Windows in a production environment. If they run into problems, they test it in IIS or Iplanet. If the issue still persists, they log an issue with Cognos.