The SAS environment file named sas-environment.XML defines a set of SAS deployments at your site. Your administrator makes this file available on your organization's network, and can provide you with the file's URL.

A prompt for the SAS Environment URL appears in the SAS Deployment Wizard during a client installation. The value that you need to supply is the URL for a sas-environment XML file that should reside on an HTTP server. Your administrator should provide the URL. If you do not know the value to enter during installation, then you can accept the blank value and select Next. However, the value is needed in order to launch any of the clients that rely on that file, such as SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS^® Forecast Studio, or SAS^® Model Manager. If an appropriate value is not specified, then the logon screen is not displayed, and errors such as the following are displayed: 

The application was unable to load the SAS environment definitions. The file location or file contents might be invalid.
Please contact your administrator for assistance.
 

Specify the value in the SASHOME/sassw.config file with the SASENVIRONMENTSURL parameter.

For multi-machine installations, use:

 

"Server_host_name.sas" is the address for the middle-tier or web-tier machine and "port" is the port for your web application server.

For single-machine installations, use:

 

"My_host_name" is the fully qualified host name of your machine, and "port" is the default port for your web application server. The following is a list of default ports based on the web application server that you are using:

• JBoss – 8080
• WebLogic – 7001
• WebSphere - 9080

For additional details, see the SAS® 9.3 Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide.

This error might also occur when your web application server is not started. See SAS Note 36986, "Logging on gives an error: "the application was unable to load the SAS environment definitions..."" for other causes of this error.