Project Initiation PDS Extension Error

[Peps]

Re-Posted from Project.Server newsgroup

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the Windows Form Project Initiation that I
downloaded from MSDN. I did exactly what the instructions stated about
compiling the client and pds extension and how to configure the server side.

When you execute the app you get "The request failed with HTTP status 405:
method not allowed."
I've tried to debug the app to figure out the problem and think it is a http
port number problem somehow. Our Project Server 2003 was not setup under the
default web site becuase it was already used by our intranet site. The PWA
url is http://s0300155:2003/ProjectServer.

I also used the pdstest.net app to access the pds but get the same error.
How can I configure the project server instance not using default port 80 so
that the pds works? Is there an issue with the PDS if not installed on
default website?

Thanks in advance,

Jose Morató
11th Judicial Circuit of Florida
Computer Services Mgr.
Miami, FL

 

[Stephan Steiner]

I don't think portnumbers should be a problem, but of course you need to
ensure that your service URL is set properly. PDSTest.NET starts with
http://yoursite/projectServer, and appends /PDS.wdsl to complete the service
url. So you need to make sure that you put your port into the address field
(in your case put http://s0300155:2003/ProjectServer) into the address
field in PDSTest.NET.

It would be very useful if webservices were restricted to using just one
particilar http port, would it? You can also check what's going on by
opening the service URL in your browser, or upon importing the service into
your project (at least when using Visual Studio).. you'll get a page where
you can try out the commands the webservice offers.

You can also run ethereal to capture the http traffic, that will give you
more details on the http message exchanges.

Hope that helps.

Stephan

 

[Ray McCoppin]

From your message I would enfur that you have multiple instances of project
server running on this server.

Besure you have completed the steps in the PDS refernce help file about
"Using the PDS with Multiple Project Server Sites"

The 405 error message says you don't have access to a file. Check the IIS
logs to see that file access is being denied to. If you are not using
windows authenication some of t default security may have to be changed to
allow access or someone may have change teh security on these files that PDS
calls require.

 

[Peps]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to post how I got this issue resolved and perhaps it could help
someone with similar issues in the future.

For some reason, the Project Server installation did not add the .wsdl
extension as an application mapping. So I manually added the extension myself
in the Mappings tab by editing the ProjectServer application properties in
IIS and selecting the configuration button.

Stephan and Ray, thank you for your responses.

Jose Morató