SharePoint 2007 - 404 and Search Service

Published 02 February 07 01:21 AM | dwalker 

Watch the AppPool that gets created for the actual Sites. The Central Administration AppPool was created with the proper credentials, but the Site AppPool was not. This caused the following 404 error to be displayed:

HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:06:36 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.4518

In the event of any errors, check the EventLog, it clued us in that the credentials being used did not have permissions to the database.

This may have actually been caused by someone else having created this particular Site Collection. I'll update after I research further.

In order for Search to work, you'll need to configure the Search Service. I'm surprised some of this wasn't part of the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

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# Peter Fattore said on April 18, 2007 3:31 PM:
What did you reconfigure your log on settings to for the "windows sharepoint services search"
# dwalker said on April 18, 2007 3:51 PM:

Hi Peter,

I had to configure it to use the generic Active Directory domain service account that we created for sharepoint to install and run under. So, it was the same account that had permissions to create the database on the SQL Server.

For some reason during the installation, this one time, it tried to use some other account that didn't have permissions.

Hope this helps.

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