RS on the Internet

Im tring to gte my report server to work on the Internet.
It works fine locally but when I add the ReportServerExternalURL to the
config file as documented it fails saying ;
The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The
ReportServerExternalURL element is not a configuration file element.
I am using Win2003 and RsSp1. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
NickIt must be something like
<Configuration>
<UI>
<ReportServerUrl>http://www.MyRSServer.com/ReportServer</ReportServerUrl>
</UI>
in RSWebApplication.config. I think ReportServerExternalURL is the wrong
property tag for this.
Hope this helps.
Regards
"Nick Jacobs" <news@.winman.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Im tring to gte my report server to work on the Internet.
> It works fine locally but when I add the ReportServerExternalURL to the
> config file as documented it fails saying ;
> The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The
> ReportServerExternalURL element is not a configuration file element.
> I am using Win2003 and RsSp1. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> Nick
>
>|||You may be modifiying the wrong Config file. This change should be
made to the "RSWebApplication.config" file which is usually located at
the following path:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting
Services\ReportManager
The new node will go within the UI element, alongside the
ReportServerUrl element. The value should be the fully-qualified
domain name for the external address.
<Configuration>
<UI>
<ReportServerUrl>http://localhost/ReportServer</ReportServerUrl>
<ReportServerExternalURL>reports.adventure-works.com</ReportServerExternalURL>
</UI>
...
NOTE: Be careful because, all elements are case-sensitive and this one
has "URL" capitalized instead of Pascal cased. Improper case can also
cause this to fail.
For more details, see MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsadmin/htm/drp_deploying_v1_0h9e.asp
I hope this helps,
Lance Hunt
http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/|||I have
<Configuration>
<UI>
<ReportServerUrl>http://COMSRV/ReportServer</ReportServerUrl>
<ReportServerExternalURL>http://remote.mydomain.co.uk/ReportServer</ReportServerExternalURL>
</UI>
In the RSWebApplication.config
Isn't this supposed to work?
Nick
"Lance" <lancehunt@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> You may be modifiying the wrong Config file. This change should be
> made to the "RSWebApplication.config" file which is usually located at
> the following path:
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting
> Services\ReportManager
> The new node will go within the UI element, alongside the
> ReportServerUrl element. The value should be the fully-qualified
> domain name for the external address.
> <Configuration>
> <UI>
> <ReportServerUrl>http://localhost/ReportServer</ReportServerUrl>
> <ReportServerExternalURL>reports.adventure-works.com</ReportServerExternalURL>
> </UI>
> ...
>
> NOTE: Be careful because, all elements are case-sensitive and this one
> has "URL" capitalized instead of Pascal cased. Improper case can also
> cause this to fail.
> For more details, see MSDN:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsadmin/htm/drp_deploying_v1_0h9e.asp
> I hope this helps,
> Lance Hunt
> http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/
>|||You were half right Lance. It is the case of the element but it's the MSDN
documentation that is wrong.
The element should read ReportServerExternalUrl not ReportServerExternalURL.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Nick
"Lance" <lancehunt@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1106665173.525554.327200@.z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> You may be modifiying the wrong Config file. This change should be
> made to the "RSWebApplication.config" file which is usually located at
> the following path:
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting
> Services\ReportManager
> The new node will go within the UI element, alongside the
> ReportServerUrl element. The value should be the fully-qualified
> domain name for the external address.
> <Configuration>
> <UI>
> <ReportServerUrl>http://localhost/ReportServer</ReportServerUrl>
> <ReportServerExternalURL>reports.adventure-works.com</ReportServerExternalURL>
> </UI>
> ...
>
> NOTE: Be careful because, all elements are case-sensitive and this one
> has "URL" capitalized instead of Pascal cased. Improper case can also
> cause this to fail.
> For more details, see MSDN:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsadmin/htm/drp_deploying_v1_0h9e.asp
> I hope this helps,
> Lance Hunt
> http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/
>|||Sorry about that. I usually test my suggestions locally before
posting, but I wasnt at my Dev PC when I posted that info. Now that
you mention it, I seem to recall this documentation mistake.
Regardless, I'm glad you worked it out.
Lance
http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/