Hi All, I have created a new web application in MOSS 2007 and it's url is http://servername:portno. But when I tried to brows this web application I am getting HTTP 404 Not Found error. I also have created site collection, that is associated with this web application and that is working fine. Any idea how can I brows web application url or I need to do some additional step's to make it browsable. Nipendra Garg

Is there a firewall running? Did you disable loopbak check? Try from another computer to connect to the web site to check it (not only directly from the server). Do you get at least the login form when you go to the web app? Any logs (ULS or event viewer)? What do you mean by "I also have created site collection, that is associated with this web application and that is working fine"? How did you "associate" the site collection to the web app? Did you perform a backup restore or did you simply create the site collection (stsadm or central admin). Also, try to see that the web site for your web app is created in IIS and that the app pool is started.Florin DUCA Logica Business Consulting, France

Hi Florin, I simply created site collection from central admin and chose newly created web application as a web app and got a url like http://servername:portno/sites/sitename/default.aspx and this url is browsable. I checked in IIS, this web application has created and app pool is also started. Web application url is also not browsable from other machine as well. I haven't disable "loopbak check" manually, I am not sure whether by default it's disabled, can you pls guide me on this how can i check for it. No I am not getting login form as well. This is the error message I am getting : This error (HTTP 404 Not Found) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but the page you wanted was not found. It's possible that the webpage is temporarily unavailable. Alternatively, the website might have changed or removed the webpage

The loopback check is a security measure that doesn't allow you to connect locally to the server using FQDM or a hostname and it can be disabled by editing registry. Is the URL you get http://servername:portno/sites/sitename/default.aspx or only http://servername:portno/sites/sitename ? When you browse the site (second link, /sitename/) do you get "redirected" to the first URL (sitename/default.aspx)? If yes then it means the site is working but there is a problem with the default page. Can you browse the site collection administration for the newly created site collection? http://servername:portno/sites/sitename/_layouts/settings.aspx Are you sure there is no firewall blocking this port? If you can't connect to the site collection admin, try doing a telnet to that port to see if the destination port is open.Florin DUCA Logica Business Consulting, France

Thanks for quick help florin, Yes the url i got is http://servername:portno/sites/sitename and it gets redirected to http://servername:portno/sites/sitename/default.aspx when i hit enter after entering first url. http://servername:portno/sites/sitename/_layouts/settings.aspx this url is also accessible and opening correctly so i think there is no problem with the port access/firewall. I dont know where it went wrong as I am not able to brows web application link http://servername:portno . gAny help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance Nipendra Garg

I got the answer. Actually I created a site collection with URL http://servername:portno/sites/sitename and was trying to access through URL http://servername:portno . Since I haven't created site collection for this url so I was not able to brows it and able to brows for URL http://servername:portno/sites/sitename. Nipendra garg

Ths is still not working for me . I dont know what the problem tried all the possibilities even by reinstalling the OS, sql server 2008, and MOSS2007 as well.. still unable to find the solution for this.. tried various other options in other forums but still cant find the solution for problem.. plz can any one help in this regarding.. trying from last 1 week.. Dinesh