.NET InfoView Login Fix

An error comes on the browser “The Page cannot be found" after trying to logon to .NET InfoView URL http://SERVER.DOMAIN.COM/InfoViewApp/logon.aspx after configuring it. Now I have Java InfoView configured on Tomcat and it works fine.


Here I’m giving the fix for this matrix: Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1 installed on Windows 2003 server with MS SQL Server 2005 Database on a different server.

I made sure that I have all settings in place except a different ASP.NET version I found. I have 3 Web Service Extensions and that does not include ASP.NET v2.1

Fig 01 – Web Service Extensions in IIS

BusinessObjects Enterprise supports Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server Pages (JSP) and .NET applications (ASP.NET), allowing an organization to use and develop custom web applications for its preferred web application server and operating system platforms.

The default option is to install the Tomcat Java web application server and ASP.NET extensions, so you can utilize both technologies on the same server.

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) .NET web application server InfoView is supported on Microsoft Information Server (IIS), and, when detected, the BusinessObjects Enterprise setup program will automatically install and deploy InfoView to IIS.

InfoView uses .NET web components (framework and reporting services) to integrate with BusinessObjects Enterprise. ASP.NET is part of the Microsoft .NET Framework, a computing environment that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet.


In order to fix this I added the Web Service I needed by following these steps:
 

Fig 02 – Adding Web Service Extension

1) From inetmgr, expand Internet Information Services (6IIS) manager

2) Click on Web Service Extensions
3) Click Add a new Web service extension…
4) Click on Add
5) Browse to this location C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ and select this file aspnet_isapi.dll and click OK
6) Give the Extension Name as ASP.NET v2.0.50727
7) Check Set extension status to allow and then click OK

Now the added Web Service Extension was listed. I restarted the IIS and then tried opening the .NET InfoView and it worked just fine.

Similar solution is also provided in SAP Note 1320325 but with different configuration.


Please add comments and/or corrections. I hope this will be helpful to someone.

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