Unable to access SQL reporting services on shared site with Themes enabled

Question

Hi, I am having some trouble with my IIS web server & SQL reporting services.

At the current time my site is playing host to both reporting services (/reports & /reportserver) as well as my personal website (domain.com)

Only just recently have I implemented a Theme on my site and as such I have placed a statement in my web.config file directing it to apply a certain theme in the following manner:

<pages styleSheetTheme="General">

Because of this when I try to access the report pages it fails, telling me it couldn't find the Theme. So, what I did was locate the source files for the /reports & /reportserver directories and placed the App_Theme folder in them hoping that would sort everything out.

What I am getting now is the following error:

*Using themed css files requires a header control on the page. e.g. head runat="server" *

Does anyone know how I can get around this? Do I have to hack the SQL reporting aspx pages? Please note I do NOT want to remove the web.config declaration.

Answer 1

Don't have the /reports & /reportserver as sub folders of the main website.

Answer 2

I found the answer on another forum. You have to set the following for the nested web.config file (the one for reporting services) to...

<pages validateRequest="false" styleSheetTheme=""/>