I'm setting up a server for a client that needs WSS, that's good, I want them to have a friendly URL to access the site rather than the normal path/port that WSS generates:
Using David Schrag's instructions (http://davidschrag.com/schlog/167/installing-wss-30-on-sbs-2003-standard) he says to extend a website and the delete the system generated Sharepoint - 80 site, when I do this it causes the backup to fail as it's still looking for it
- Click Start | Administrative Tools | SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
- Click on the Application Management tab. Click Create or extend Web application. Click Extend an existing Web application. On the page that opens, click on the Web Application field and select Change Web Application. On the page that opens, select your SharePoint Web Application. (It should be listed as “SharePoint – 80” with a URL of http://servername/. Click the name to select it.
- In the IIS Web Site section, select the option to create a new web site. Enter a description for the new site (e.g., Intranet). In the Port field, enter 80. In the Host Header field, enter intranet. Verify that the path is set to the default: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\intranet80. Leave the rest of the fields in their default settings. Click OK.
The MS article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671966.aspx they
Step 5: Create a new intranet site using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
To create a new intranet Web site using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
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On the Application Management tab, in SharePoint Web Application Management, click Create or extend web application.
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On the Create or Extend Web Application page, click Create a new Web application.
Doing it this way also causes the backup to fail
The backups failed several times under each method with the error "ERROR: Backup failed for object sharepoint - 80 failed in event onpreparebackup".
The backup commands are:
stsadm -o backup -url http://intranet -filename D:\sharepoint\backup\backup.dat
stsadm -o backup -directory D:\sharepoint\backup -backupmethod full
I have ~70Mb of backup files from an empty WSS system do I need to worry about the backup error, do I have enough to recover from should the WSS get corrupted?
Anyone know why David says create "intranet" site by extending exisiting and MS say create new?
Sorry for the number of questions, I think there's a huge call for WSS but I need to be sure that we can install and support and think that maybe I've read too much and mixed things up and caused my problems.
Thanks
Tony
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