topic QVS and Web Server on separate boxes in QlikView

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Has anyone had any success in setting up QVS on one box with the web front-end (QVWS and/or IIS) on a separate box? Here's what we're trying to do:

QVS is on a 64-bit Windows 2003 server.
The web server is 32-bit Windows 2003 running IIS 6.
We are only interested in deploying pages using the AJAX ZFC.

Has anyone managed to pull off a similar configuration? I'm particularly interested in the answers to the following:

What QlikView components were installed on QVS?
What QlikView components were installed on the web server?
Are you using QVWS or IIS or both to publish AJAX pages?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:02:34 GMT

There is some more information on this in the new QVS 9 SR1 Reference manual under chapter 17 - Functional Architecture. Page 196 contains settings for running the webserver on another machine than the QVS.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

chrisbrain — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:26:29 GMT

Hi,

I've set this up a number if times with QlikView Server 8.5 and earlier and I don't think it's changed for 9.

The following steps should help:

From the machine you have installed QVS on:
1) Copy the folder 'C:\Program Files\QlikView\Server\QvClients' to your web server, I would recommend copying this to 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot'.
2) Copy the file 'C:\Program Files\QlikView\Server\QvsComRemote.dll' to your web server, say to 'C:\QlikViewServerComponents\'.

Now on the target web server (you shouldn't need to run any QlikView installers on this):
3) In IIS. create a virtual directory in your web site named QvAjaxZfc which points to 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\QvClients\QvAjaxZfc'.
4) In IIS, create a virtual directory in your web site named QvClients which points to 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\QvClients'.
5) At the command line run 'regsvr32 c:\QlikViewComponents\QvsComRemote.dll'.
6) Edit 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\QvClients\settings.js' in notepad by uncommenting the line:
// var QvsHost = "qvs.site.com";'
and replacing the variable with that of you QlikView server machin name or ipaddress.

You should now be able to browse to:
http://localhost/QvAjaxZfc/QvsViewClient.asp

Where localhost is the name or ipaddress of your webserver - this is the backend which talks to QlikView Server.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:33:59 GMT

This may be *an* answer, but not the one I was hoping for. We have this running under 8.5. We set it up by installing the QV 8.5's IIS components on our web server. The end result was similar to what you describe, although there wasn't as much manual movement of files.

I was hoping to get it working so we wouldn't have to publish our AJAX files to the IIS web server. I believe this is only possible when using the QVWebServer. In the end, if we get this working, we'll probably need both the QVWS and IIS. QVWS for the qlikview pages and IIS to handle our special authentication needs.

Still looking for ideas...

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

chrisbrain — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:27:23 GMT

Where do you want to publish your Web Pages/Ajax files if not on the web server?

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:04:54 GMT

QV9 supports getting the AJAX files directly from the QlikView server *if* you are using the QVWebServer. You don't have to publish the web pages like you did in older versions.

Or so we're told.

I have that working on a stand-alone box that's running QVS and QVWS. I no longer have to publish the AJAX pages every time I make a change to them.

Now I need to split these functions apart so that QVS is running on a different box than QVWS. I also need IIS running on the same box as QVWS so I can implement my authentication stuff.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:41:20 GMT

Hi,

I have done a configuration for that. What i have done is..

- Install QVS on both server

- On IIS server machine, edit the file "QVClients\setting.js" to point to QlikView Server (change the vars QvsHost). Vars QvsPort is optional. Dont forget to remove the comment tags.

- On QV Server machine, edit the file "HttpServer\config.xml". Change QvsHost to point to QV Server. And also change QvsTunnel to match ur environment.

- IIS Server machine - do not run QV Server (QV Management Console)

- QV Server machine - run QV Server (QV Management Console)

That's what i have done and I'm able to access all the qvw file from our intranet but...we can't accessed from outside intranet. If I'm access from internet all the document list is appeared but cant open the QVW it's gave an error something like this "iis_authenticated .... . .. cant open file". All of my qvw file and ajax is located on QV server machine.

What i have done is quite same with Chris Brain but i didn't do the step number 5. Maybe Chris can explain what is the purpose on this step.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:17:54 GMT

Do people on your intranet have connectivity to your QV Server machine? If so, it might explain why it works from the intranet but not from outside.

Can you get to the QlikView AccessPoint page on your IIS Server machine?

When people are on your intranet, what is the URL that they use to open the document?

Are you using AJAX/ZFC or IE Client to deploy it? Are you using NTFS or DMS authorization?

Can you get to the

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:54:01 GMT

Yes, people in intranet can connect to QVServer, I try to run telnet command to that IP from internet but failed to connect.

Yes i can get to qlikview accesspoint from intranet and also from internet (from internet can't get the document list)

The URL to access is "bi.mydomain.com/qlikview"

I'm using IE client. It should be the same method if you using AJAX/ZFC to deploy.

I'm using NTFS authorization

Btw, my problem is people from the outside/internet can't get access to the document because this IP address is on out intranet. Is this the source of my problem? How to solve this?

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:03:15 GMT

When people connect to the Accesspoint page from outside, do they authenticate? On the accesspoint page, in the upper right, it says "Logged in as: " somebody. If you have a particular user who connects from both inside and outside, is the "Logged in as:" name the same in both cases? I would think that even without connectivity to the QVS, Accesspoint should provide the same document list regardless of where the user comes from.

I'm not completely sure about this, as we only use AJAX/ZFC, but you need to have some sort of connectivity from the outside to your QV Server when using the IE plug-in. You could poke a hole in your firewall so that traffic over port 4747 can get from the outside to your QVS. Or, you could implement tunnelling so that people connect to your web server, and then it tunnels requests to your QVS. By default, I think it will try to use port 4747, but I think it can also use port 80 if things are configured correctly.

There's more information about this in section 17.2 of the Server/Publisher Reference Manual.

I finally got our set-up running by installing the QlikView Web Server service on *both* our IIS Web Server and our QVS. I'm not completely sure if this is necessary, but things started working for us when we configured it this way, so I didn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out the details.

Please post back to the list if you get things working.

Good Luck

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:35:27 GMT

everytime people connect to accesspoint or just the standard qlikview they must login. At the accesspoint the "logged in as:" was filled with their username. All the document list was appeared on this page but we can't open the document from internet only from intranet the document can be open.

Here a list of error message when I try to open the document from internet/outside.

1. Access to: bi.mydomain.com/qlikview/accesspoint

- Open document with "Internet Explorer Client": Stuck on The windows dialog box appear (Connect to server), i try with "Use NT Identity", "Anonymous" and "Alternate Identity" still can't open the document.

- Open document with "Java Client": error message appeared "Can't connect to server. The server might be down or there may be a firewall that block the connection. Try again?."

2. Access to bi.mydomain.com/qlikview: the same error also as open document with IE client on accesspoint.

3. Access to bi.mydomain.com/qlikview: In here i try to open with AJAZ/ZFC using the default sample. Error message "Failed to open document, you don't have access to the server.

What do you think about that? Do i have to create a tunnel to QVS?

Did you create a tunnel? change the config.xml and also make changes the vars QVStunnel?

Btw, can you ping or telnet the IP address of your QVS from internet/outside?

Update: I just saw the QVS log, it appears the authentication on QVS server is the problem

128 Error Anonymous logon failed: L.

119 Error Failed acquiring token for anonymous access

I can't change the security setting on the QVS, everytime I change to anonymous it won't changes and always back to "prohibited anonymous". Already try to reinstall the QVS but this bug still exist.

I'm using QVS x64 8.5 6231 and running on windows 2003 SP1

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

boaz_shatz — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:51:40 GMT

ihave working configuration as i understated from your description:

1. IIS 6 on w2003 32 bit

2. qvs 8.5 (no matter sub version but it is 8.5.6231)

3. anonymous access to iis website of qvs application

what i have done is:

1. in the qvs i installed qvs and qvajaxzfc support

2. on iis i installed iis support (if you have no firewalls no need for tunneling) and qvajaxzfc support

3. change the file qvsviewclient.asp from var host ='localhost' to var host='my qvs server fqdn' on iis (this tell where the qvs is)

4. verify that on the iis you have the qvscomremote.dll file installed

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:31:19 GMT

Yes, this is similar to what we had when we were running QV 8.5. However, QV 9.0 (and above) is a different beast, so a different solution was needed for us.

Your answer might help with Dwi's issue, but I can't verify that one.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:58:46 GMT

Hi Boaz,

i'm not using IIS 6, i'm using IIS 5.1 and since on the web server there's a lot of others website, the network people didn't want to upgrade the IIS.

On what you have done, did you using QV 9? Your configuration step is quite similiar on what i have done also.

I can't use QV 9 because we got stuck on IIS 5.1

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:10:12 GMT

Hi Bill,

Did you still using QV 8.5? using the separated IIS and QVS, did you able to open the document from the outside/internet?

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:21:30 GMT

Where I am, we've always had IIS 6 - even when we were running QV8.5.

Here are a few comments and thoughts:

We've never allowed direct access to the QVS from any user's PC. The only traffic to the QVS is from the web server.
We also needed to set up a *domain-level* windows account for use by QlikView. This account had Administrator-level access on BOTH the web server and the QVS. Any QlikView services on either box ran under this account. Is that how you are set up?
I don't remember how it worked under QV 8.5, but there might need to be some sort of connectivity between your web server and your Windows domain controller in order to authenticate Windows user credentials. (I'm just guessing about that one. We use DMS authentication, so we've rolled our own authentication scheme and don't use Windows authentication.)

Good luck,

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:22:53 GMT

I have some questions regarding the best method for authentication setting on IIS for this configurations

- When i'm changing the authentication on IIS then i got an error "object error" when trying to open the qv document list. How to solve this? what is the best authentication configuration both on the Web server machine(IIS) and QV Server machine?

- On my licenses (LEF) there is text " FORCE_AUTHENTICATION;YES; ", so i can't change the security setting on the QVS, it always stick on "prohibited anonymous". So, what is the best authentication configuration for my case?

Is it possible that my issue (cant open document from outside/internet) is happened because of wrong authentication configuration both on IIS and QVS?

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:27:20 GMT

Hi Bill,

Thank you for your response, maybe for the next step i'll try to use DMS authentication because I never touch this.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:39:10 GMT

Setting up DMS Authentication is not trivial. I think you'll only want to try that after you've exhausted all other possibilities.

I wonder if there's a problem running qvscomremote.dll under your version of Windows/IIS. What version of Windows is the web server running?

It might be worth testing to see if the Windows authentication part is working. You could do that by creating a new website that just has a vanilla "Hello World" HTML page. Then set the site to only allow Integrated Windows Authentication (while disabling anonymous access). Do you have experience with that?

If that works, then you will know that it's not Windows authentication that's causing the problem.

QVS and Web Server on separate boxes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:50:44 GMT

yeah..you were right i'm already exhausted with this, because i dont really understand on network (not yet).

Hmm..i'll try to test qvscomremote. The web server running on windows 2003 SP1 32bit with IIS 5.1