At my final attemp of installing WEBI was to select the Manual Server Configuration during installation, and then map the Virtual Directories manually after installation was complete. This is probably the process I would use again if I had to install WEBI for another client.
Minal 
The workaround I found was to create the directory structure in advance,
which usually takes at least one failed install / de-install… if you have
a working box, copy the http-server folder and below to the server to be set
up next - that helps…
If you don’t have a working copy, the event log will tell you the failed
folders… if you create them from that log, you may get thru the issue…
It just surprised me to see in in the 2.5x version, especially after the
visibility it got here under 2.0x… I just wondered who else had seen it,
since it never failed to occur here…
Brent
I’ve installed WEBI 2.0.X several times because on installation it
does not
map the virtual directories, or maps some but not all the virtual
directories, this has been on NT 4.0 / SP5 using IE5. I’ve bounced
this off
BO tech support, but the only answer I got was, “We’ve installed WEBI on the same environment and it’s installed and
mapped
the virtual directories without any problem”.
That really helps me a lot.
I feel like I’m beating my head against the wall ever time I speak
to tech
support. At least we have this BO discussion list, where would we
all be
without it.
But, as to the problem above, I’ve not found a solution to this
problem
except install/de-install several times until it works. Once it’s
successfully installed it runs fine.
Minal 
I want to piggy back on this message - in install,
has
anyone else
had the
problem (leading to blue screen o’ death) where Webi
(2.0x
and up)
cant set
the virtual directories up?
I find this happens pretty consistently under NT 4.0
/ SP4,
and I
know some
folks have seen it - but did a lot of you?
Brent
Hi Listers,
My company is considering to implement Web
intelligence, I
would
like to
know what you think of the product
Is it user-friendly?
have many bugs?
What’s the installation like?
If you anyone can give some info then it
will be
appreciated
Thanks
Elana
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