SSRS Interface changed overnight - reporting-services

When I came in to work yesterday, I went to run my usual reports. I go to 192.168.1.43/Reports like usual and was greeted with this error.
First I noticed the IP address changed, easy enough. I go to 192.168.1.44/Reports. But I was greeted with the same error (since then I changed this server to a static IP). The only thing that works is if I go to 192.168.1.44/ReportServer. Then the interface looks like this. My subscriptions are still running but I can not get to them. I've been trying to figure this out for more than a full day at this point. Any help would be very much appreciated.

The view you can see in your screenshot is normal, this is the Web Service URL.
The bit that is not working is the Web Portal URL which, by default, is the same address but ending in /Reports as you have already tried.
This may not resolve the problem but the first thing to check is that the address is configured correctly.
Open "Reporting Services Configuration Manager", connect you your report server when prompted (just the server name or address is required)
Then check the "Web Portal URL" tab
(this is based on SQL Server 2016 so may be slightly different on your version)
If the address is incorrect, click "Advanced" to make changes

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Expired cert for (Authentication Node.js Example Quickstart)

I am just beginning working with Banno and Jack Henry plugins and i am trying to run through the Node.js quickstart but have gotten an error trying to access the local host page.
I have succesfully started the server but when attempting to access the login via localhost:8080/login.html i receive a privacy error because the server.cert file contains an expired certificate. I need somewhere to generate a new certificate or where JH has one stored for the dev learning track. Thanks in advance
Your browser should give an option (even if it is somewhat hidden) to continue with the Consumer API OpenID Connect Example (https://localhost:8080/login.html) even though the cert has expired.
For example, with Safari for Mac it should look like this:
Clicking the "Show Details" button brings up a hyperlink option to "visit this website". That'll let you move forward.
The precise steps may be different in your browser + operating system, but the general answer is the same.

500 Internal Server Error just on Google Chrome when logging into PayPal

Whenever I try to visit log in to PayPal on Google Chrome (my current version is 35.0.1916.114 which is the most up to date at the time of writing this), I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Here's the exact one:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster#paypal.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
I'm able to visit the homepage fine and I can log in on all other browsers but this has been an issue for some time now (I just haven't gotten around to looking into it). At the moment, I open Firefox just to use PayPal but I used Chrome for everything else so I'm trying to solve it.
Any ideas on why this would be happening? I've seen other questions on the web similar but they are mainly due to people 'buying' through PayPal which isn't a problem for me. I can purchase items on the 'purchase' screens that you get redirected to from a site.
Thanks for your help!
I see this from time to time on a couple of very specific web sites (e.g., Slashdot). All other sites works fine when this happens (and the site works fine in other browsers, including Web Kit based ones). The embarrassingly simple solution is to restart the browser (I try to avoid it since I often have 50+ tabs open). If guess the problem might be session cookies (that would explain why a restart works). As a consequence of this guess, clearing all permanent cookies for PayPal and related sites might be worth considering.
For me, I do like this at the 500 error page
Click on the Secure to the left side of the address bar
Select Site settings
Select Reset site settings at the bottom of the page
Reload the page
in some cases but not all. There appears to be a corrupt session via the cookie or data stored for a specific browser in the java files. Try the following;
1. Download CCleaner (close chrome)
Remove and clean registry files
Remove tmp and cached for CHROME as well as cookies
Clear index.dat file
4. Control Panel / Java-open / clear internet java cached files
5. Make sure you're not using a proxy IP for the web
6. Restart computer
7. Try again
Now that Google separated cookies from permissions I had to delete my cookies separately to get it to work.
Click on the Secure to the left side of the address bar
Select Cookies
Select the wordpress cookies and Remove each one
Reload page

Creating a Copy of SSRS Site

I have a production SQL Server Reporting Services site called http://server/reports.
Now I want to redevelope this, without causing any downtime. I would like to copy the whole site and point it at http://server/reports2.
Here I can change what the user will see before evetually pointing the new site back at http://server/reports.
Is this possible
You can go into SSRS config and choose a new site name. All Programs>SQL Server 2008>Config Tools>SSRS Configuration Manager. It opens up a little admin site>Click 'Report Manager URL' on the left pane provided you have the credentials to get in. You can change your website and web service site here.
However that may wipe out your old site as I am not certain if that would work except for 'moving' a site. If you want two sites you will have to work with 'Scale-out Deployment' most likely which is a different problem all together.

Can Google Chrome be used on a local dev server with an invalid SSL cert?

Our application runs within a frameset that uses one visible frame to show content and two others to handle communication with the server. I did not design this and have no power to change it now.
The problem is that my local machine does not have a valid SSL certificate (it's self-signed), so accessing it and trying to login pops an 'invalid certificate' error. In IE and FF I am able to simply click a button to continue. However, I just started trying to test with Chrome and it seems to stop me dead with:
Error 501 (net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE): Unknown error.
There is no option to continue. There also doesn't appear to be anything in the options menu to add localhost as a trusted site, though I may have missed something. Does anyone know a way around this? Disabling SSL locally won't be very easy and risks me forgetting to enable it for deployment. Any other thoughts?
Thanks.
What I would recommend is to add the self-signed certificate to Chrome manually rather than trying to make localhost a trusted site. It looks like there are a couple ways to accomplish this. Here is one forum thread that discusses the issue, but I think it boils down to:
If you are on Windows, install the certificate in IE. The linked thread explains this process in more detail, but it looks like you go to the site in IE, click "Continue" or similar, then right-click the certificate error button to the right of the URL bar and follow the prompts. (If that doesn't work, here's a question that I believe addresses the issue.)
More recent versions of Chrome appear to allow certificate import directly. On version "15.0.874.121 m" for Windows, I can click the tool menu, go to Options, then Under the Hood, then the Manage Certificates button. I believe you then click the "Import..." button, though I do not recall whether you need to be on the Personal tab or one of the others. You will need to have the certificate in a file format that Chrome supports (p12 is one, there are others). There is a help link in the appropriate place that specifies the accepted formats.
I recommend Safari for this purpose. Sign a cert with StartCom, and enroll the cert in the browser.

SSRS Authentication Issues on a fresh install

Once again the SSRS security wall has hit me.
I did a fresh SSRS 2008R2 install.
I created a separate account (ssrs) on my box to access SSRS-related services.
Upon navigating to localhost/reportserver, I was confronted with a windows authentication popup. I entered the ssrs username and pw and after some time was presented with the following error message:
The permissions granted to user 'mybox\ssrs' are insufficient for performing this operation. (rsAccessDenied)
Navigating to localhost/reports/pages/folder.aspx renders the same SQL Server Reporting Services error.
I've setup reportserver.config as follows:
<Authentication>
<AuthenticationTypes>
<RSWindowsBasic>
<LogonMethod>3</LogonMethod>
<Realm></Realm>
<DefaultDomain></DefaultDomain>
</RSWindowsBasic>
</AuthenticationTypes>
<EnableAuthPersistence>true</EnableAuthPersistence>
</Authentication>
Ultimately, what I would like to do, is access the reports through my C# code, which I'm assuming I will use the authenticated user that I've setup on the box.
One post indicates to add the name or group to the ssrs group, which once done, doesn't work with SQLServerReportServerUser$MyBox$MSRS10_50.SQLSERVER2008R2.
Keep in mind, I am not yet able to even view any of the report services menus, as some people have had issues with. I'm at step 1, just trying to see the services.
I've even tried logging in with my admin account on this box - no go - still a permissions issue.
Some step-by-step guidance on this would be helpful.
Thank you.
After several different combinations of trying, the solution has presented itself.
To recap - this is auth issue was right when trying to access localhost/reports and localhost/reportserver - couldn't even get to the Reporting Services homepage.
I had tried setting Full Control permissions for my ssrs user and Everyone on C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.SQLSERVER2008R2\Reporting Services (and all subdirectories) which did NOT work.
Ultimately, I started IE in Administrator mode (right-click on IE, select Run as Administrator), and was able to navigate to localhost/reports which goes to http://localhost/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx.
Select Folder Settings / New Role Assignment. The New Role Assignment page will allow you to setup specific users you have setup on the box.
In my case, for now and just testing, I just have one user to access all SSRS-related items.
Incidentally, I am accessing /reports through a different browser, so the fact that I'm in IE as Admin, doesn't affect the other separate vendor instance.