Error whils accessing Report Manager through browser

Hi friends ,

We are using SQL Server Reporting Services 2005. When I want to access Report Server through browser I am giving IP address as

http://<servername>/ReportServer

this is working fine

but when I want to access Report Manager and when I am giving IP address as

http://<servername>/Reports

I am getting error as followes :

The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The configuration element is not a configuration file element.

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.Exception: The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The configuration element is not a configuration file element.

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:

[Exception: The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The configuration element is not a configuration file element.]

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.ThrowInvalidFormat(String element) +41

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.ParseDocument() +135

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.Load() +32

[ServerConfigurationErrorException: The report server has encountered a configuration error. See the report server log files for more information.]

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.Load() +166

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.Construct(String configFileName) +62

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration..ctor(String configFileName, String location) +296

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfigurationManager..ctor(String configFileName, String configLocation) +134

Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.Global.get_ConfigurationManager() +84

Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.Global.get_Configuration() +4

Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.GlobalApp.Application_AuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +84

System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92

System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64

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

Where I am going wrong.

we are now in the stage of deploying and we are getting this kind of errors

can you help me out ?

sandeey

Hi,

seems that you screwed up the configuration files. To see which one is corrupted (your web services seems to work), navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportManager or the appropiate path in your installation and validate the XML files by the schema mentioned in the header of the file.

If you have no tools to validate through the schema, you can also take a fresh and working file from antoher instalaltion and look for typos or any things that are different to your damaged file.

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de