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msmith

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2015-01-25

Editing config files through the GUI

Hi,

On the demo server, files in Administration -> Fileserver are listed as content type text/xml and there's an "edit file" tab.

On a fresh install of RS 2.2.1-5602, all files have a content type of app/octetstream and there is no "edit file" tab.

As a workaround editTextFile works from the command-line.

Thanks,
Mike

Arno Mittelbach

datenwerke

Registered: 2012-02-14

Re: Editing config files through the GUI

Hi Mike,

thanks, I've create a ticket to look into this. The config files should be generated as "text/xml".

As a second workaround: You can simply change the content type to "text/xml". After reloading the item (load a different file, and then the one you changed) you should be presented with the "edit file" tab.

Regards,
Arno

ps. how did you install ReportServer? Installer, or manually?

msmith

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2015-01-25

Re: Editing config files through the GUI

Thanks Arno; I installed ReportServer manually on Linux by extracting the zip under /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/reportserver. I used the Oracle database creation script.

In case it makes any difference - the first time I started Tomcat I forgot to fix the permissions on /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/reportserver; the directory was not writable by tomcat.

Thanks,
Mike

Arno Mittelbach

datenwerke

Registered: 2012-02-14

Re: Editing config files through the GUI

Hi Mike,

thanks, we'll look into this.

Regards,
Arno

msmith

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2015-01-25

Re: Editing config files through the GUI

This is no longer an issue after a fresh install, making sure the webapp directory and internaldb directory were writable before starting Tomcat for the first time.

Thanks,
Mike