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andrewhUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 12:37  

My problem is similar to the last post about intranet vs internet but I haven't found a solution yet. The website and DB are all on the same machine and are running SQL Server 2008. I can access the reports inside the network using the machine name and or the IP address, but outside I get an "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the page" when I try to use the external IP of the server. I have tried adding the IP address as a trusted site, but it still won't work. I have gone to the configuration manager and both internal machine name and external IP are listed. Any suggestions? thanks.

hostUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 12:44  
Do you have the right ports forwarded on your firewall so traffic coming from external gets routed to the right port / machine internally?
andrewhUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 13:28  

Thanks for the reply,

Not sure how to do that since I don't want the web traffic re routed, but the Report Services is on port 8080, which I had to use because of weird issues with SSL.

andrewhUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 14:14  

Actually, I figured it out, I just added a Website to IIS and pointed it to the ReportingServices directory where I installed SQL Server and assigned it to port 8080 and it works. Thanks for your help, you got me on the right track.

hostUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 14:18  
good deal!
andrewhUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 14:45  

Funny how that isn't documented anywhere? Seems pretty basic.

One last problem though is that it still requires you to login to view it externally. Unfortunately the Reporting Services is installed under an administrator, so I don't want to give out that password. Do I need to create a seperate user for Reporting Services and assign it appropriately or is there a way around the login issue?

hostUser is Offline

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08/13/2009 19:48  
the reporting services rely on windows authentication unless you are using forms based authentication. The module will require a user that has access to reporting services. You can control what access to the report server based on the module settings, so it doesn't matter if you use the admin account or not.
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