Saturday, May 14, 2011

Blank SharePoint Site in Windows 7

Another issue with SharePoint 2010 installation in Windows 7. When I create a new site collection through central administration and browse through the page, it shows a blank page. Even sometimes I receive the blank page when I open Central administration. Weird :-(

After doing many changes and I have even reinstalled the farm to get rid of this issue. No luck. After a long time I found the issue is with the authentication.

to make the sites to work do the following.
1. go to IIS : cmd-inetmgr.
2. Go to your site collection.
3. Click Authentication


4.Right click Basic authentication and enable it.
5. There you go..refresh the page..you will see you sites.. bravo..

cannot connect to configuration database

I have installed SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7. I had to do many configuration changes to make it work. Not excited though. It should work in the same way as it should have in Windows server. Whenever i turn off my system, start again and broswe to anysites or central admin I receive this error.
"cannot connect to configuration database"..

very annoying ah?..

The reason is everytime you turn off you system, the SQL Server(SharePoint) services also get stopped.

To make the sites to work normally go to Services.msc and make sure the following services are running. If not right click and start it.

1. SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)
2. SQL Server (SHAREPOINT)