Website access remotely now working correctly 1

[BobSchleicher]

I have SharePoint Services 3.0 setup using SSL. Internally if I go to "

https://server"

everything works great, I log in and it forwards me to "

https://server/default.aspx".

The problem is when I access the server from the outside (my house lets say) I go to "

https://server"

and I get the banner asking for my username and password (so far so good) but after that it doesn't forward me to "

https://server/default.aspx"

it stays at "

https://server".

If I go to "

https://server/default.aspx"

from the outside it works perfectly.

Does any have any ideas to get this to work without using the default.aspx on the end of the website?

BobSchleicher

 

[MaxEd]

Set in IIS to load the default aspx first. Change the order of the page to load for the site. Make sure you restart IIS once you do that.

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[BobSchleicher]

Good idea but that didn't work.

BobSchleicher

 

[MaxEd]

Try deleting all the other file names and just use Default.aspx. I did that and it fixed it for me.

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[Beowulf005]

Go to Central Administration
Operations
Alternate Access Mappings
Edit Public URL
Select your sharepoint site
Input an internet address

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[BobSchleicher]

Thanks a million Beowulf005.
That actually fixed another little issue I was having.

BobSchleicher

 

[Beowulf005]

Now only if I could get it working on mine server

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[MaxEd]

Beowulf005,

I redownloaded the latest version of v3 and it worked great. Previous versions kept having SQL Server issues.

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[Beowulf005]

I have an SBS server and the page will not display. Followed every direction but still cannot get it working. On my testing box I have it working perfectly but its not connected to the internet.

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[BobSchleicher]

Can you get to the admin site?

BobSchleicher

 

[Beowulf005]

Yea which is weird. Can create a site manage it but now view it, I get Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.

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[MaxEd]

Did you check to make sure your Sharepoint Services are all up and running. Also depending on how you setup the SQL server it could create problems. I had one hell of a time doing it so I went with whatever the defaults were when setting up the access rights of the accounts accessing the database. I didn't use Network Services I think, but I saw exactly the samething you are seeing though when used the installation that was released awhile ago.

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[Beowulf005]

The only service that isn't running is SQLAgent$SHAREPOINT. When I try to start it I get

 The SQLAgent$SHAREPOINT service on local computer stated and then stopped. Some services stopautomatically if they have no work to do, for example, the performace logs and alerts service.

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[BobSchleicher]

I created a Service Account for Sharepoint Search, Sharepoint Timer and SQL Server. Each have admin rights to the local computer.
Maybe this will help.

BobSchleicher

 

[Beowulf005]

How did you creat that account. Please

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[BobSchleicher]

I have and OU in name Service Accounts in AD.
In that OU I have all of my Service Accounts that I use.
The accounts are name something that makes sense and I give that account an extremely complicated password. An example:
username: SASharePointSearch
password: !2op()kdi@#$aeipcPLW737@@
I make the password very complicated because it needs admin rights to the computer it is being used on.

In a nut shell, create a new user and add that user to the admin group on the server it is being used on then change the user on the service.

BobSchleicher

 

[Beowulf005]

I have figured it out just as you posted rebooted server and seeing if I can get it to work

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[Beowulf005]

Argh

Going to try unistalling nd reinstalling

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[MaxEd]

I spent almost a month trying to troubleshoot it and just ended up reinstalling. My sanity was in question at that point so I just reinstalled everything including the OS and I'm glad I did.

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[Beowulf005]

Did a repair install and it works Yea

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