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Crystal Report Issue with IIS - ( bobj is undefined , Crystal report not displaying )

I have crystal report 2010 installed with VS 2010.i have created a crystal report which is works fine in the localhost but the issue is once i publish my website to IIS the report is never displayed.it just display a blank page.i checked my published folder even the .rpt file is not there.can any one tell me how to resolve this issue?

Solution

  • Solution

    The solution is to work on IIS this way:

    • Copy aspnet_client folder from c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder to the new website root folder.

    or (first one is easier, second one is better for maintenance)

    • Create a virtual directory called aspnet_client that points to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client inside the new website

    Problem analysis

    It's possible to analyze the problem

    • using client tools (debug window of browser)

    GET http://someserver:20080/aspnet_client/system_web/4_0_30319/crystalreportviewers13/js/crviewer/crv.js 403 (Forbidden)
    GET http://someserver:20080/aspnet_client/system_web/4_0_30319/crystalreportviewers13/js/crviewer/images/style.css 403 (Forbidden)

    • or server tool (IIS log , on WIN2003 is placed in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC###\ on WIN2008 C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC###).

    2011-03-28 13:00:49 W3SVC701536 95.228.38.41 GET /aspnet_client/system_web/4_0_30319/crystalreportviewers13/js/crviewer/images/style.css - 20080 - 192.168.1.2 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+MSIE+9.0;+Windows+NT+6.1;+Trident/5.0) 403 6 64 Errore! 2011-03-28 13:00:49 W3SVC701536 95.228.38.41 GET /aspnet_client/system_web/4_0_30319/crystalreportviewers13/js/crviewer/crv.js - 20080 - 192.168.1.2 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+MSIE+9.0;+Windows+NT+6.1;+Trident/5.0) 403 6 64 Errore!

    Cause the problem

    Crystal Reports runtime is installed, but your application is not running under default web site.

    • In both cases i found that crv.js and style.css some files were not served;
    • these files are placed by CR installer in wwwroot\aspnet_client folder, but for some reasons they cannot be reached;
    • In my case the reason is that i create a different website (port 20080) and aspnet_client folder is not placed inside that website

    I can see that you use different versions of software and different configurations, but i think you have the same problem.