HCL Cognos BI web applications and the web server

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

HCL does not provide the web server that hosts Cognos Connection and the other HCL Cognos BI web applications. For Windows™, the HCL 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.

	
<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>