403 Forbidden in Reporting Services
I just spent a good chunk of time fighting a problem with my SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services installation. I had not previously used it on this machine so it should've been exactly as the SQL Server (and SP2) installation program configured it.
I started by deploying a new set of reports from Visual Studio over to the server, which worked straight away. I then went to the Web-based Report manager and could see my reports deployed, but as soon as I tried actually rendering one of the reports, I'd get an error like this one:
Remote server returned an error: (403) ForbiddenLong story short, the problem was in how the /Reports application references the services in the /ReportServer application, and I fixed it by going to IIS and modifying the /ReportServer application configuration to add "ReportService2005.asmx" as a possible default content page under the "Documents" tab of the application's property page.
Thanks, I spent considerable time on this.
One of my servers work without requiring this addition, but another won’t work until I added this. Not sure why, and not sure of the implications, but for now it’s working for me.
Thanks for posting this. Saved me hours…
\\Greg
Thanks for this, this had been a big problem for me.
Totally amazing fix that belies belief, but nonetheless, it solved the 403 error I was receiving on the second run of replicating an ASP/SSRS application. The first run worked fine without the addition of this file, the second would not render a report because of this error. Adding this file into the Documents section did the trick.
Weird, I have no idea why this resolved my issues, RS was working fine 1 day then next not and only this fixed it