Summary of Issue
One of my clients has a WSS v3.0 site that is being hosted by GoDaddy on a Virtual Dedicated Server. It is set up to deny all connections except the white-listed IP Address in the Windows Firewall. All traffic is passed over an SSL connection. The issus was that WSS v3.0 search did not search.
In the Event Log I found the following error: Event Type: Warning Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event Category: Gatherer Event ID: 2436 Date: 1/5/2007 Time: 10:40:01 AM User: N/A Computer: TEAS-A02 Description: The start address cannot be crawled.</pre> <pre>Context: Application ‘Search index file on the search server’, Catalog ‘Search’</pre> <pre>Details: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0×80041205)
Methods to resolve the problem
1. Central Administration > Application Management > Create or Extend Web Application > Extend Web Application to Another IIS Web Site
2. Web Application: Selected my web application that I want to extend
3. IIS Web Site: Changed the description of the IIS Site to be “[COMPANY] Search – [PORT]” for easy reference later on
5. Load Balanced URL: changed Zone to Custom
6. Clicked OK I let the box sit for a few minutes to index on its own and then performed a search. Search results started rolling in!
Tested
July 2009
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