I just installed CF 8.1 Report Builder and attempted to use it for the first time.

Is it required to have RDS activated on the server in order to use report Builder?

Russ wrote:
> I just installed CF 8.1 Report Builder and attempted to use it for the first time.
>
> Is it required to have RDS activated on the server in order to use report Builder?

I do not think it is *required* but I believe report builder will
definitely be limited by not having access to RDS to provide graphical
integration with database objects.

OK, that makes sense except that I know that using RDS in prior releases of CF
gave programmersfull access to server drives and folders, a risky situation.

Anyway I activated RDS on a test server with CF8.1, installed Report Builder
on my PC and the software wants to configure an RDS server. I enter everything
that is required including the RDS password and when I test the connection I
get "The following error occurred while trying to connect to the RDS server:
http/1.1 404 not found".

any thoughts?

http/1.1 404 not found

Is that an exact copy from the error message?

If so, then something is wrong somewhere in your configuration, since
http:/1.1 is never going to resolve to a http connection. It is not a
complete IP address.

I would expect to see something like:
http://127.0.0.1
OR
http://localhost
OR
Whatever is required to connect to the ColdFusion server to which you
are trying to connect.

Russ wrote:
> OK, that makes sense except that I know that using RDS in prior releases of CF
> gave programmers full access to server drives and folders, a risky situation.

P.S.
Yes RDS does give programmers a great deal of access to a server and it
is a risky situation. That is why all the documentation says to *NOT*
allow RDS on production servers, only development servers. And to take
whatever other precautions you deem necessary to restrict the access to
even the development server to only those who should have access.

good point on not allowing RDS for production servers.

anyway, on the "http/1.1 404 not found" error, yes that was an exact copy of
the error message. Based on your comment I went back and looked that the
configuration.

The 'description' of the configuration can be anything (I assume).
for the Host Name, I did have just the name of the server, what was
DTSC-HWTSX. Port is set to 80, no Context Root, no SSL, no Username, and the
password was set to what I had set with the CF Administrator.
I changed the Host name to
http://DTSC-HWTSX and now I get the error message of "A connection to the RDS
Server could not be established because the webserver was unreachable". That
host address is good (Intranet only), and I did verify that I could get to it
with a browser..

Thanks for your assistance and thoughts. Any other ideas?

i got the same situation.

i installed CF 8 and report builder on an intranet-connected machine and the
RDS service worked just fine with the host name set to "localhost", but then i
installed another report builder on my own machine tried to connect to the
previous machine ,after i typed in all the information required by the
configuration and clicked test connection ,i got the message "A connection to
the RDS server could not established because the web server was unreachable." ,
i set the host name with the ip address of that server and it just could not
work.

any ideas?

swangstw, interesting writeup thank you.

Another thought: this can also happen if RDS is disabled. Check that *both* RDS sections of the web.xml are uncommented.

see
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...nalId=tn_17276

Thanks a lot