After rebooting the Windows 2003 Server with the IIS I receive the follow error message Cannot connect to the configuration database. in the browser. The error occur on different pages and with different clients. that I think it is a server problem.
What can I do to solve this error?
A quick web search suggests that this error message is probably coming from SharePoint Services, and indicates that SharePoint cannot connect to its database.
There seem to be several reasons suggested:
The latter could be IIS 6.0 configured for IIS 5.0 compatibility mode, or the application pool configured for 32-bit worker processes on a 64-bit system.
I hade the same problem, and it did happen just after a windows update, hmm... First of all, someone (windows update) hade change the user account on the service "Windows Internal Database (MICROSOFT##SSEE)". Changed back to the right account and the WSS started to work, but with an error (Application / error or something)
This new problem was something I just got for free after I hade run the Exchange Analyzer tool and done some modifications to my system, that was recommended by the tool.
If i changed my web.config too look like this (c:/inetpub/wss-dir/web.config):
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
I discovered what the problem was, it was a access/security issue. The error message told me:
Access to the path "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\8c91a6b5\649b28ba" is denied.
But this was not the hole truth... the access denied was not to the ..\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\8c91a6b5\649b28ba folder, it was to the %TEMP% folder, that I hade just moved due to a suggestion from the Exchange Analyzer Tool.
Have a nice day!
Hi,
Hope this is helpful for someone looking out for solutions on the same:
http://prasanjitmandal.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-fix-central-administration.html
BR, PM