Windows 2003 IIS & Error Installing of Reporting Services (IIS) -- sql server reporting services

Eric S.
3/8/2005 4:53:03 PM

Yes I do have it setup as an "Application Server" under the "Manage you
Server" within the Control Panel, and I did verify that I do have the
"Application Server" component checked under Windows Components.

Very frustrating.

Eric S.

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Eric S.
3/8/2005 5:29:03 PM

Reference
http://www.visualjason.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ad8689ce-83e9-4f6c-aaa8-6fc712689ec1

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Well, it looks like my Default web site had somehow been re-created with a
new identifier (not the 1 that RS was expecting). I don't think there is a
way to create a web site with a specific identifier (especially 1), so I took
a lower-level approach.

Now, I wouldn't recommend this in a production environment, but since this
is a test server, I opened up the metabase.xml file and did a global search
and replace to replace the Default web site's identifier with 1.

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That fixed the issue for me.

Regards,

Eric S.

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Lance
3/10/2005 8:21:48 AM

FYI: I ran into this exact problem last week, but I still had various
sercurity-related problems after doing the same metabase hack (rename
to '/LM/W3SVC/1/') and had to remove Sql Reporting and IIS, then
reinstall from scratch.

What a pain! I dont see any way to override the Website identifier,
and don't see any legitimate reason to restrict it to a certain web
instance. Especially when in the "real world" its possible and often
preferable to have a web farm that serves-up several sites so that you
can share the hardware resources without dedicating it to a single
purpose such as Sql Reporting.

I guess this is my question in all this is ranting; Does anyone know of
a way, during or after setup, to override this behavior and install to
a different website instance?

Thank you,

~Lance
http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/

Tim Coker
4/15/2005 10:08:04 AM

An easier way to change site identifiers is:

cscript adsutil.vbs move w3svc/<id of site to be moved> w3svc/1

adsutil.vbs is in the adminscripts folder of your inetpub

Hope this helps someone else.
Tim C

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