Question

Problem with SharePoint Services 3.0 after upgrade from 2.0

Asked by: joshsfinn

After upgrading SharePoint Services 2.0 to SharePoint Services 3.0, my pages don't load correctly.
When browsing to http://sharepoint - The error says:

Error
Cannot complete this action.
Please try again.

If I add "/default.aspx" (http://sharepoint/default.aspx) on to the end of the URL, the page loads properly.

This is running on Windows 2003 Standard.

How do I get it to automatically add /default.aspx?

Thanks.

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Asked On
2008-02-08 at 06:34:45ID23147784
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Answers

 

by: MsShadowPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:45:27ID: 20851241

In your Internet Information Settings for your sharepoint site add default.aspx to the default loading pages. This can be achieved by rightclicking on your SharePoint site in IIS, selecting properties. Then go to the documents tab, make sure that Enable default documents is checked and that default.aspx is in that list.

 

by: joshsfinnPosted on 2008-02-08 at 08:01:06ID: 20851391

default.aspx is the first item in the list.

 

by: liebrandPosted on 2008-02-08 at 08:34:43ID: 20851685

Make sure you go into IIS and under Web Server Extensions make sure that Windows SharePoint Services is set to allowed.  This should resolve your issue.

 

by: joshsfinnPosted on 2008-02-08 at 08:41:41ID: 20851756

Windows SharePoint Services V3 is Allowed.

 

by: TechSoEasyPosted on 2008-02-27 at 18:53:40ID: 21000844

How did you perform the upgrade?  Was it an in-place upgrade?  or gradual?

Was your WSS 2.0 default.aspx page ever modified using FrontPage or Sharepoint Designer?
If so, see the section entitled "Determine how to handle customizations" in this document:
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102210521033

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