Question in Upfront

[comsys]

hello,

When I open IE browser with url

http://localhost/cognos,

i get page not found.I checked all the upfront, ppes, iwr services everything working, please help me

http://localhost/cognos/cgi-bin?xmlcmd=<GoHome/>

Page not found


Thanks

 

[flex13]

Are your virtual directories set up properly on the webserver?

 

[comsys]

Flex13,

Thanks for your reply. Virtual directories have been setup properly. Before I get &quot;Pape not found message&quot; I could see a link &quot;Loading upfront&quot;.

Http://myhome/cognos

- Fraction of seconds, Loading upfront message disappreard.

I appreciate your reply..
Thanks

 

[Exie]

Hi,

I remember this problem, but I cant recall how I fixed it. I think it had something to do with resolving the machine name/IP address.

At any rate, you should check out your IIS logs and your Event log. They may help.

Cognos KnowledgeBase article 113725 looks firmilar -

If your web server is configured to use fully qualified domain names, then the Upfront Gateway url in Configuration Manager must use the fully qualified domain name syntax (servername.domain.com).

Steps:

1. Launch Configuration Manager from the command line. ($.../cer2/bin/configure)
cd server name
cd &quot;Cognos Shared&quot;
cd &quot;Runtime Parameters&quot;
cd &quot;Server Configuration&quot;
cd upfront
cd &quot;Upfront Server Group&quot;

2. Change the gateway to a fully qualified domain name using the set command (do not use quotes around the URL) -

set gateway =

http://ServerName.Domain.com/cognos/cgi-bin/upfcgi.exe

3. Apply the changes and start the machinename.

 

[comsys]

thanks for your reply..

I'm running win2000 server and iis 5.0
, where do i set the gateway variable?
please look at the iis log file..
I appreciate your reply.
thanks'=

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2003-11-24 07:54:12
#Fields: date time c-ip cs-username s-ip s-port cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query sc-status cs(User-Agent)
2003-11-24 07:54:12 xxx.xxx.25.129 - xxx.xxx.25.129 80 GET /cognos/ - 302 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.01;+Windows+NT+5.0)
2003-11-24 07:54:12 xxx.xxx.25.129 - xxx.xxx.25.129 80 GET /cognos/index.html - 304 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.01;+Windows+NT+5.0)
2003-11-24 07:54:12 xxx.xxx.25.129 - xxx.xxx.25.129 80 GET /cognos/cgi-bin/upfcgi.exe xmlcmd=<GoHome/> 404 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.01;+Windows+NT+5.0)

 

[cogdev]

Check your system to see if URLScan is installed. If it its find the URLScan.ini file - thinks its locaded in the inetsrv folder. Check and see if the 'Allowed' section includes '.exe' files. Or the 'Deny' section probably has .exe files. Update accordingly, reboot and u should be fie.....

HTH