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SSRS Report Server can't use IIS to make available from local host

  • October 2, 2024 at 6:54 pm

    #4464671

    I have successfully configured SSRS Reporting Service to run on my laptop. However, when I tried to make this service available via IIS to external users, I am finding this near impossible to achieve and extremely frustrating.

    ChapGPT has so far been limited in helping to diagnose and fix the problem.

    I've attached a screenshot of my non-secure website showing the folders I've created which contain various sample rdls.  I don't need to make this demo website secure. This is a connection to the website via my machine

    I want to use MS free web hosting client IIS to allow external users to access this site only. I am wondering if anyone else has been able to do this?

     

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  • October 3, 2024 at 4:25 pm

    #4464986

    Sorry, it's not clear to me what you want to achieve. You write very well, but somehow still fail to describe what you want in a way that I can understand. That may be on me though. 🙂

    Do you want to make other people able to reach the IIS website you have set up on your own laptop?

  • October 3, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    #4465012

    SSCommitted, thank you for responding. I will try to elucidate my intentions

     

    • I am trying to make the website in the screen caption available to external users. I am using the IIS website to accomplish this.
    • To do this IIS must provide authentication, with a login form like index.html which provides authentication with a back-end application, ASP.NET. This handles the authentication that is normally done with a windows account login. (I don't users to have access to my own windows account for obvious reasons)
    • I have the asp.net files: Validate_login.aspx and Validate_login.aspx.cs created in a local folder. As well the IIS start and asp.net files are in the same place.  I have tested these files with a test.aspx which works. It's a simple text msg as shown below:

    This is a test ASPX page.

    To summarize, I am not making the back-end IIS website available to external users but a local URL using the IIS website to perform authentication and redirecting users to my local host as a URL.  Here is a screenshot of the folders I'm trying to make available.

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