Configure Microsoft IIS web server for IBM Cognos 10.2 on Windows7 platform

Step 01) Configure an Application Pool

1) Go to Start > Administrative Tools, right-click on Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and select Run as administrator.

2)Expand on the <server name> which is located under the Start Page, then expand on Application Pools.
3)Click on "Add Application Pool..." from the "Actions" pane on the right side.

4)Provide the required details in the New Application Pool dialog.

5)Click OK
6)Now back to IIS Manager's left explorer pane, select the newly created Application Pool and click Advanced Settings under Edit Application Pool within the Actions tool pane on the right.

7)For 64-bit installs of IIS, select the "Enable 32-bit Applications" setting and set the value to "True".
And change the "Start Automatically" setting to "True".

8)Click OK
9)Go to IIS Manager's left explorer pane select the newly created application pool and click Start under Application Pool Tasks within the Actions tool pane on the right.

Step 02) Create The IBM Cognos 10 Virtual Directory
 
1)In the IIS Manager's left explorer pane, expand Sites and Default Web Site.
2)Right-click the Default Web Site and select Add Virtual Directory.

3)Provide the required details for the "Add Virtual Directory" dialog. And press OK to save the changes.

Step 03) Create An Application for cgi-bin

When an IIS Application for cgi-bin is created it will map the IBM Cognos gateway modules to the application pool created earlier.

1) In the IIS Manager's left explorer pane find the virtual directory "ibmcognos" created earlier. Right-click on the virtual directory and select Add Application.

2)In the Application pool: field, select the application pool created earlier i.e "IBM Cognos 10" by by clicking on the "Select..." button. 
And press OK to save the changes.

Step 04) Configuring IIS 6 for IBM Cognos CGI

1)Select the "cgi-bin" application from the Default Web Site > ibmcognos tree in the left pane of IIS Manager. Select the "Features View" from the lower bar in the middle pane.
2) Look for "Handler Mappings" in the middle pane.

3)Double-click on "Handler Mappings" in the middle pane.
This will bring up the list of handler mappings for this application in the middle pane.
In the upper right Actions pane, click "Add Module Mapping" to add the CGI mapping.

4)Provide the required details for the Add Module Mapping dialog.
Request path: specify "cognos.cgi"
Module: select "cgiModule" from the dropdown list.
Executable (optional): field should be left blank.
Name: module name such as IBMCOGNOS-CGI

NOTE- If you can't see 'CgiModule' in the above Module drop down. Then please install CGI module in IIS web server on your machine.
Please refer below link-
http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/cgi

5)Click OK to save.
6)Go back at the "Handler Mapping" page, "IBMCOGNOS-CGI" should appear under the Enabled section.

7)With the newly created mapping i.e. "IBMCOGNOS-CGI" selected, click "Edit Feature Permissions" from the upper right Actions pane.
8)In the "Edit Feature Permissions" dialog, check the "Execute" checkbox to enable CGI execution.

9)Click OK.

Step 05) Setting the CGI Restrictions for the Web Server

1)In the IIS Manager, select the web server in the tree view on the left and in the content pane select the "Features View" tab at the bottom. Look for "ISAPI and CGI Restrictions" feature.

2)Double-click on the "ISAPI and CGI Restrictions" feature. This will bring up the list of defined restrictions in the middle pane of IIS Manager.
3)In the upper right Actions pane, click Add...

4)Provide the necessary details in the "Add ISAPI or CGI Restriction" dialog.
-In the ISAPI or CGI Path:  give complete path to the "cognos.cgi" file
-In the Description: specify a description of the restriction like "IBMCOGNOS-CGI" -Make sure that the check-box for "Allow extension path to execute" is checked
-Click OK

Step 05) Testing the CGI installation

-Open Cognos Gateway URI "http://<webserver>/<alias>/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi" in a web browser. It should get opened properly.

For example in our case it is- 

http://localhost:80/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi