topic Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server in Report Server

Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

jcaroe — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:35:40 GMT

We are currently using Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) installed on a Windows Server machine, and we would like to know if it's possible to modify the access URLs to include an additional context path.

Specifically, we would like to prepend a custom context (e.g., /myapp) to the default PBIRS URLs, so that instead of accessing the Report Manager and Report Server via:

http://<hostname>/Reports
http://<hostname>/ReportServer
...we could use:
- http://<hostname>/myapp/Reports
- http://<hostname>/myapp/ReportServer
  Is there a supported way to configure PBIRS or IIS (if applicable) to achieve this behavior?
  Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

v-ssriganesh — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:41:50 GMT

Hi @jcaroe,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum.

Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) does not natively support adding a custom context path (e.g: /myapp) to the default URLs (/Reports and /ReportServer) through its configuration tools, as the virtual directories are fixed. However, you can achieve the desired URL structure by using IIS as a reverse proxy with URL rewriting on the Windows Server hosting PBIRS.

Here are the official Microsoft documentation links for URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS, as referenced in the response:

These links provide detailed guidance on configuring URL Rewrite and ARR in IIS, including setup, rule creation, and proxy settings, which are relevant to achieving the custom URL structure for Power BI Report Server.

If this information is helpful, please “Accept as solution” and give a "kudos" to assist other community members in resolving similar issues more efficiently.
Thank you.

Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

v-ssriganesh — Sat, 03 May 2025 18:15:42 GMT

Hi @jcaroe,

May I ask if you have resolved this issue? If so, please mark it as the solution. This will be helpful for other community members who have similar problems to solve it faster.

Thank you.

Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

jcaroe — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:44:49 GMT

Hello, I havent tried the solution you proposed yet but it sounds like exactly what we need!

Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

v-ssriganesh — Mon, 12 May 2025 06:33:26 GMT

Hi @jcaroe

May I ask if you have resolved this issue? If so, please mark it as the solution. This will be helpful for other community members who have similar problems to solve it faster.

Thank you.

Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

v-ssriganesh — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:20:04 GMT

Hi @jcaroe,
I wanted to check if you had the opportunity to review the information provided. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions. If my response has addressed your query, please accept it as a solution and give a 'Kudos' so other members can easily find it.
Thank you.

Re: Customize Access URL for Power BI Report Server on Windows Server

jcaroe — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:27:50 GMT

Hi,

I did try this solution, but the problem then occurs when I access any dashboard via the web portal. I managed to rewrite Reports and ReportServer urls to omr/Reports and omr/ReportServer.

Basically when you click on any item, an HTTP call is automatically fired to the /powerbi url, which is not rewritable (this is handled by the Power BI Report Server Back-End application).

Since any call is to be sanitized by a proxy which only accepts calls under a specific context (for example, omr) this is unacceptable since it will be blocked and all calls will end up in a 404 error.
Is there really no other way?