Cognos® BI web applications and the web server

You can host the Cognos® Connection and the Cognos® BI web applications by using either Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) or Apache HTTP web server.

does not provide the web server that hosts Cognos® Connection and the other Cognos® BI web applications. For Windows, the Cognos® documentation assumes that you are using Microsoft IIS but you can also use Apache HTTP.

If you use the Apache HTTP server, set up the web aliases for the Cognos® web applications in the VirtualHost configuration directive of the Apache httpd.conf file correctly. Be sure to list the most specific alias first, which is the script alias, and set the directory permissions for each alias.

Example httpd.conf code snippet

The following example is from an Apache installation on a Windows system. The Apache server is running on the default port 80.

	
<VirtualHost *:80>
 ScriptAlias /ibmcognos/cgi-bin "C:/cognos/cgi-bin"
      <Directory "C:/cognos/cgi-bin">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
      </Directory>
Alias /ibmcognos "C:/cognos/webcontent"
      <Directory "C:/cognos/webcontent">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
      </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Note: The httpd.conf file snippet is an example only. Be sure to configure your web aliases appropriately for your systems.