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Application Pool Settings when both Controller and CDM are on the same box

Troubleshooting


Problem

Customer has installed both Cognos Controller and Cognos Disclosure management (CDM) on the same application server. Controller uses .NETFramework V2.0 while CDM uses .NETFramework V4.0.

Symptom

In one specific example, when Customer was trying to launch Controller they were receiving the following Error message

Error: "An error occurred while trying to access the server. http:
//spibm-contsb/ibmcognos/contollerserver"

Error details.

Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected
'text/xml'.
The request failed with the error message:
--
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<title>500 - Internal server error.</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body{margin:0;font-size:.7em;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;background:#EEEEEE;}
fieldset{padding:0 15px 10px 15px;}
h1{font-size:2.4em;margin:0;color:#FFF;}
h2{font-size:1.7em;margin:0;color:#CC0000;}
h3{font-size:1.2em;margin:10px 0 0 0;color:#000000;}
#header{width:96%;margin:0 0 0 0;padding:6px 2% 6px 2%;font-family:"
trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;color:#FFF;
background-color:#555555;}
#content{margin:0 0 0 2%;position:relative;}
.content-container{background:#FFF;width:96%;margin-top:8px;padding:
10px;position:relative;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
<div id="content">
<div class="content-container"><fieldset>
<h2>500 - Internal server error.</h2>
<h3>There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it
cannot be displayed.</h3>
</fieldset></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

--.
.


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Modified date:
08 May 2025

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