I thought I had my environment built, but I keep finding little problems. Well, this time it was the report repository. I got the reports posting, and I thought I was home free. The solution ended out being simpler than I thought.
Let me just walk you through some of the things I checked to see if it helps any of the problems you may be having.
My specific error was: “Site name is not valid“.
The cause was that my Report Repository path was not configured. PeopleTools > Web Profile > Web Profile Configuration
The catch was that somehow I got mixed up on which Profile I was using. You can check your profile easily from the Web Profile History:
On the search page of the Web Profile History, you can see which profile was loaded last. You can sort the list by clicking on the “Profile was Loaded” heading. If you click a second time, it will sort it descending. Notice that previously I was using the Dev profile on port 8000. When I last installed PIA, I must have configured it for the Prod profile on Port 80. So now, I need to configure things on the Prod profile.
Here’s some other things you can check. Make sure your distribution node is connected to your server:
Then, check the Report Node. Make sure the URL matches the URL you are using to connect to the Portal. The domain name and port should match. If there is no port number like mine, you are using port number 80. Then, check the portal domain name. For me, I am using the default “ps”.
According to this post, you also need to check the local node. In PeopleTools > Portal > Node Definitions, look for the node with Local Node set to “Y”:
Now, make sure the node is set to password authentication. I am not sure what else to check here.
Finally, check your configuration.properties file for the path. I am not sure what this setting controls because mine was wrong just now, yet it seemed to be working.
Look in <PS Home>\webserv\<domain>\applications\PORTAL.war\WEB-INF\psftdocs\<domain>\configuration.properties.
The Repository path is in that file:
