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Gateway time out Error

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 changed callstack to "true" and customerror to "Off". The issue was related to some dlls for this BPM webparts. I checked the solution management section in Central Administration - Operations and found that wsp for this BPM application was deployed locally for another web app and not globally. Then I deployed this wsp for my new web application and error vanished. Things are sorted out now.

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