Fixing SQL Reporting Services The URL has already been reserved error during Configuration

April 2, 2017

Fixing SQL Reporting Services The URL has already been reserved error during Configuration

Server 2012 R2, SQL Server

I was recently helping out a colleague with an SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) installation. When it came time to configuring that instance of SSRS and making it listen on port 80 for that particular site we got The URL has already been reserved warning message, navigating to the Reporting Services URLs gives us a HTTP 500 error message.

To find the culprit I can usually use netstat -ab to find what windows process is listening on particular ports but for this instance it was simply SYSTEM, this usually means that an application is using the HTTP.SYS driver to directly listen for requests. So to work around this and find out what has bound to those ports, we use netsh http show urlacl and when I ran it on this server, I could see that ReportServer had already been enabled on Port 80.

   Reserved URL            : http://+:80/ReportServer/
       User: NT SERVICE\ReportServer
           Listen: Yes
           Delegate: No
           SDDL: D:(A;;GX;;;S-1-5-80-2885764129-887777008-271615777-1216005580-2722851051)

   Reserved URL            : http://+:80/
       User: NT SERVICE\ReportServer
           Listen: Yes
           Delegate: No
           SDDL: D:(A;;GX;;;S-1-5-80-2885764129-887777008-271615777-1216005580-2722851051)

I’ll show you two ways to remove these entries that have been incorrectly configured. The first is using the following command

netsh http delete urlacl http://+:80/ReportServer/

A much easier way I’ve found is to use a tool called HttpCfg.exe written by Steve Johnson which is based on a tool from MS (now obsolete). I’ve got this in my toolbox for the future, but simply open the tool, select the entry and hit delete.

Now we can re-run the SSRS Web server configuration and hit apply which should succeeded this time.

2 responses to “Fixing SQL Reporting Services The URL has already been reserved error during Configuration”

Thierry Van Durme

July 26, 2019

Cool info thanks a lot!
There’s a typo in the delete command however – it read ReportsServer and should be Reportserver

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1. John
  
  July 29, 2019
  
  Thanks, have updated the post.
  
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