Need Setup Help: "The ReportServerVirtualDirectory element is missing"

I am getting setup problems with Reporting Services 2005.

When I try to connect through SQL Server Management Studio, the browser in the connect dialog can see the Reporting Services 2005 instance, but when I try to connect, I get an error dialog with the message, "The Report Services instance could not be found (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient)"

I manually setup ReportServer and ReportManageer virtual directories in IIS to point to the corresponding directories within the Reporting Services installation. Was I supposed to do this manually? Was the installer supposed to set this up?

Anyway, when I browse to http://localhost/ReportServer/ I get:

* The report server has encountered a configuration error. See the report server log files for more information. (rsServerConfigurationError)
o Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.4\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RSReportServer.config' is denied.

When I browse to http://localhost/ReportManager/ I get:

An error occurred while parsing the configuration file. The ReportServerVirtualDirectory element is missing.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to fix?

RS 2005 comes with a Configuration Tool that creates the virtual directories, connects to the repository, updates the config files etc...

Find it at Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -> Configuration Tools -> Reporting Services Configuration

|||Bingo. That did it. Thanks Adam!|||

Hi, can you help me with this?

I still having this error and when I go to "Reporting Services Configuration" everything is OK with a green check, but the "Report Manager Virtua Directory" still appears with a Red X indicating that is "Not Configured", I push the New Button, and I get no errors in the "Task Status", it says the virtual directory was created and asigned, but the Red X is still there.

I later delete the vortual directory in the IIS Console and created, but is the same, I already tried changing the name os the virtual directory wne I press the new button, but nothing seems to work.

I've searched for this, but this is the only sites that appears.

Can you help me?

If you need something like a screen shot, just mail me!

Thanks!

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hi Abasilis.

Look at "Report Server Virtual Directory" above the "Report Manager Virtual Directory". That's probably not configured which is why you have that red x. Set that up and the red 'x' will go away.

|||Yes, you are right. I have the same problem and it is fixed now. Thanks.|||

Well, this is not the problem. but I resolved, because I formatted the Laptop because I had another problems with my sound card and my wireless network card. Problem solved, but I have to reinstalled 3 times, because each time appears a diferent error. That happens when you use a free product, because I installed SQL Server 2005 and in the first installation of the report services everythig works fine.

Thanks anyway..

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Try looking in the file "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\Reports\RSWebApplication.config"

for this line:

<ReportServerVirtualDirectory>?</ReportServerVirtualDirectory>

Is there no text where the ?'s are? If there is text, is it the correct name for the ReportServer virtual directory?

In my case, for some reason it was empty, there was no text where the ?'s are. When I filled in the text "ReportServer" (without the quotes) in that spot, then refreshed the browser-window that had the error "An error occurred while parsing the configuration file. The ReportServerVirtualDirectory element is missing.", the error went away and instead the normal Report Manager home web page showed up. In my case, no amount of playing with the configuration tool solved this, but this manual intervention did.

Good luck.

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DanaLive,

I had the same problem and added the text as you suggested to fix the problem.

I also noticed right above the virtual directory tag is a URL tag. Does anyone know if this should be set as well?

Code Snippet

<Configuration>
<UI>
<ReportServerUrl></ReportServerUrl>
<ReportServerVirtualDirectory>ReportServer</ReportServerVirtualDirectory>
<ReportBuilderTrustLevel>FullTrust</ReportBuilderTrustLevel>
</UI>

Thanks,

Johnny

|||Brilliant, thank you!|||This is just a pointer for the report manager to know where to look for the server, so if they're on different machines or of you are usiong HTTPS to secure the server you need to populate it, otherwise you shouldn't need to.|||

Thanks everyone for the information. However I still had a problem with getting Reporting Services to work. Here is what fixed it for me:

Under Web Service Identity, Select the Drop Down for Report Server and Report Manager and change the Default AppPool to RS.Net.0AppPool.

This corrected the errors I was having, hope this helps.

|||Changing the app pool has fixed the issue because it probably runs under a different identity to the original one i.e. an account that matches the rs service.|||

I'm also installing new and this fix also worked for me. Man I'm glad I found MSDN. I tried support.microsoft.com for this error and no luck.

I suspect this problem originally occurred because I did the Report Server Configuration and IIS was not running.