My IT Experiences

Everything was working fine until got this Service Unavailable error from my MOSS central administration. I checked the IIS and app pool, everything seemed fine. I double checked that the domain account that ran my Central Admin app pool had sufficient rights, this was a dev server farm and people could be playing around with it. But this account had sufficient rights. Then I checked to login remotely to another server in this farm using the same domain account and I got the error that the account was locked! Now that was the problem. I checked with IT and got this account unlocked and Central Admin came back online :)

I was creating a new web application on a WSS 3.0 server for hosting BPM application webparts. This new site had to be accessible from Internet. While creating the new web application I provided a host header which was already set up in the DNS server and it had an IP address too. Next I created a site collection. After creating this web application I provided this IP address on the properties tab in ISS for this website. It was created on port 80. I had also provided the IP address in the "Advanced TCP/IP Settings" of this server. Now when I tried to access this new web application, I got the error "Gateway time out". I had no clue as to what was causing this error. Then a colleague pointed me to a Microsoft fix for this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 After applying this I had to restart the server and now there was another error. It said "File not found". I edited the web.config of this web application so that I get a detailed error. I ch