"File Not Found" issue

the site shows "File not found" when i visit whatever pages with .aspx extensionwithin the site. but the js, css, images and txt are all right.
i search resources from internet, and found most similar issue cause by configure web.config with IIS tools, and they remove xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0" in web.config, that the site goes well.

but it's not my case, do anyone have the same case like me or provide me any info on this issue.

thanks for any of your help.

May 6th, 2009 10:29am

Hi Jason,

The most similar issue cause by configure web.config to reference assembly does not exist (especially in AJAX configuration), or user control reference on the master page and its file removed from "Control Template" folder, something like that...


Mahdi Abdulhamid
http://www.devexpert.net

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May 6th, 2009 10:40am

What are your AAM settings and are you accessing using a URL other than http://servername ?
May 6th, 2009 10:41am

thanks, Mahdi

this error also display when i visit the system pages like _layouts/login.aspx. it's weird.

so i think it's not concern to my customized assembly and controls.

do you have any thoughts on this?
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May 6th, 2009 10:46am

May I suggest to use Fiddler in order to trace what's going on ?
May 6th, 2009 10:47am

thanks, Serge.

i gota 200 code result, and nothing special on the monitor of Fiddler.
the same error message on the browser.
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May 6th, 2009 10:55am

Did you make any changes recently to the configuration?

I'd also have a look at the 12 hive log files. They may provide some useful insight.
May 6th, 2009 11:26am

thanks, Mike and Paul.

thesite is set to form authorization with SSL.defaultmap to https://domain/ and internal map to http://servername:portinalternate access mappings, also, we bind an external IP to the website in IIS.

the plain error message "File not found"display when we access the site with https://domain and http://servername:port

the _layouts/login.aspx show up properly by using http://ip:port, but give unknow error after logging with the break images.

i have no idea on what causes this issue.

thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

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May 6th, 2009 1:31pm

Jason,

Did you configure your SSL Certificate for the site, if not Your site will display "FILE not found" error.

if you have not configured the certificate, just download the IIS 6.0 resource kit (Assumption you are running win 2003 server with IIS 6.0) from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/840671and setup the selfSSL

Then run the following command : SelfSSL /T /S:(your site id) /P:(Your SSL port usually 443)
ex : SelfSSL /T /S:1 /P:443

the above SelfSSLCertificateis only for internal testing purpose, For commercial you need to buy and install SSL certificate from CA

May 6th, 2009 3:39pm

thanks, Ramakrisna.

the SSL was installed and the site once running pretty well.

i have one web application set with form authorization and another extend site for windows authorization.

now both of these site appear the same error.

and we have two servers running, one is for disaster recovering.

the client inform me that they had DNS issue yesterday and fix that issue, do you think it would affect?

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May 6th, 2009 3:50pm

before this issue happen, the content db was performed DB replication between two servers.

the content DB might be damaged and somestorage procedures wasmissingwhen replication running failed.

after restoring the content DB, it looks good again.

thanks for all your help.

  • Marked as answer by Jason Frog Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:46 AM
May 7th, 2009 3:46am

before this issue happen, the content db was performed DB replication between two servers.

the content DB might be damaged and some storage procedures was missing when replication running failed.

after restoring the content DB, it looks good again.

thanks for all your help.


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