Cognos10 installation for Windows

I was struggling with Cognos BI server installation for my laptop which is running Windows 7. Later I faced similar challenge for Windows 2008 server machine. In both cases I was looking for default out-of-the-box installation.

The place where I got stuck was with configuring the web server. IBM Cognos documentation is barely adequate. So I thought I would post the steps for the installation for everybody's benefit. I installed Apache web server. The key is to edit httpd.conf file for virtual directory mapping.

Include conf/extra/cognos10.conf # added this line in httpd.conf

Contents of included file cognos10.conf:

ScriptAlias /ibmcognos/cgi-bin "C:/Program Files (x86)/ibm/cognos/c10/cgi-bin"
<Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/ibm/cognos/c10/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /ibmcognos "C:/Program Files (x86)/ibm/cognos/c10/webcontent"
<Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/ibm/cognos/c10/webcontent">
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from All
</Directory>