I will admit first and foremost that his is probably a lack of knowledge issue. As I'm not finding documentation on "how to" deploy a crystal report webpage from visual studio 2017 to a Windows 2012 R2 server. I assumed it would be the same as any other webpage, but apparently I'm missing something.
So this is just a proof of concept so it is BASIC. I mean zero programming just using the tools given by the IDE and crystal reports SDK.
I created a basic no frills website, added a crystal reports viewer, set up the Crystal Report Source to point at the report in a reports folder and when that didn't work to a place on the HDD ( Here I think is the problem ). This set up works locally with no issues. However from the server it throws the Error: Load Report Failed..
Now I realized at one point that the report itself was not publishing, so I set "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy Always".. this does not work. So I right click the report in the Solution Explorer and published it.. it's there now, yet the error still comes up. I would guess because it points directly to the local copy on my system.
I thought this has to be a rights issue, so for testing I gave Everyone full control of that reports folder with List folder content all the way down to it. Still no joy..
To defelect the obvious question, yes I have already checked 32 bit and 64 bit on the application pool and I have installed the Runtime on the server, i have tried both 32 bit and 64 bit there as well.
So educated assistance would be very helpful here. Thank you.
