SSRS 2008 r2 - the Report Manager won't load unless "/Reports" is added to the DNS entry in address bar

Hi Urquhart,

According to your description, if you type "Reports2" in the browser, then you want to redirect to the report manager homepage in SSRS 2008 R2, right?

In Reporting Services 2008 R2, it uses HTTP.SYS for HTTP access and it’s independent of Internet Information Server(IIS). The role for HTTP.sys in Reporting Services is that, HTTP.sys receive the user's request, and then send it to report server. Report Server handle the request(e.g. authenticate the users), and then use HTTP.sys the send HTTP responses again. In a word, HTTP.sys is just a driver, which allow us to communicate the clients(browser) with Report Server without Microsoft Internet Information Server(IIS).

So, since HTTP.SYS doesn’t provide URL redirection function, we are not able to redirect "Reports2" to report manager homepage by default. If we want to use redirect function, we should add a .html file in IIS to redirect the user to the report manager.

Similar thread for your reference:

SSRS 2008 URL Redirecting

SSRS 2008 R2 Homepage Redirection

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best regards,

Qiuyun Yu

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