SSRS 2008 URL Redirecting

Question

I have SSRS installed on a machine having SQL Server 2008. My reports are hosted on "www.mywebsite.com/reports"

Is there a way I can redirect people entering site URL "www.mywebsite.com" directly to "www.mywebsite.com/reports" so that they can directly see the reports site?

If it can be done please suggest how its done.

Thanks

Regards

Chris

Answer 1

Hi Chris,

Since SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 is independent of Internet Information Server(IIS), we are not able to redirect 'www.mywebsite.com' to 'www.mywebsite.com/reports' by default.

However, we can use this workaround to to solve the issue:
1.Install IIS on the report server. create a website with 80 port.
2.In this site, create a HTML web page with the following code:

<script>window.location = 'http://www.mywebsite.com/reports</script>

3.Save the file to be Default.Html. This file to used to redirect the user to the report manager on the file loading.

Now, we are able to redirect the user to 'www.mywebsite.com/reports' while the user accessing 'www.mywebsite.com'

If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks,
Jin Chen

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Jin Chen - MSFT

Answer 2

A redirect from the root to "Reports" folder should be a setting in SSRS.