REporitng Services for 2005 Express Advanced

Good day,

I have recently downloaded the SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced. According to the site Reporting Services is included with this and when installing one can see Reporting Services installing so all seems fine.

Well, after many days of pulling my hair out I am stuck. All I am trying to do at the moment is view the http://localhost/reports page and I can't. I keep getting an error saying the following:

Server Error in '/Reports' Application.

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Failed to map the path '/Reports/App_GlobalResources/'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to map the path '/Reports/App_GlobalResources/'.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[InvalidOperationException: Failed to map the path '/Reports/App_GlobalResources/'.] System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPathActual(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitNull) +3521404 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CheckTopLevelFilesUpToDate2(StandardDiskBuildResultCache diskCache) +306 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CheckTopLevelFilesUpToDate(StandardDiskBuildResultCache diskCache) +46 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.RegularAppRuntimeModeInitialize() +418 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.Initialize() +235 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.InitializeBuildManager() +228 System.Web.HttpRuntime.HostingInit(HostingEnvironmentFlags hostingFlags) +310 [HttpException (0x80004005): Failed to map the path '/Reports/App_GlobalResources/'.] System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +3426887 System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +88 System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +149

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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42

Please is there anyone that can help me. I can;t see what is causing this. I have read I need to give the local ASPNet account write access to a whole bunch of folders which I have done but no change. I ran the config tool that installs to set up new Report Manager and Server Virtual Directories and nothing seems to work.

Please someone help me.

I would love to test and try and develop using this, but if I can't even get the Report Manager Server part working I am a long way from development.

Thanks in advance.

Can you use regmon and filemon to see if there are any access denied error for you ASPNET account?|||

Hi James,

Thanks for your help. Yup, I have regmon and filemon and no access denied errors are coming up at all. Sorry I should have mentioned that.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again

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Hi - Did you solve this issue? I am still going through this. I have tried installing Reporting services at least 4-5 times now, still having the same issue.

I have IIS 5 installed - but am able to run ASP web sites using 2.0 Framework.

Thanks for your time.

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I did but I cannot remember what I did. I had all the good intentions of posting my results here but then got caught up in the next project.

One thing I did note is that I upgraded IE to Ver. 6, but more than that I cannot remember.

I am sorry