Make sure that all the paths are the same on each web front end
If you don't and you simply want to add an extra front-end server and for example on the first front-end server you put the virtual directories folder on the F drive. And the second web server does not have a F-drive you are confronted with all sorts of errors on the 2nd server when you open up a site:
Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category: Runtime Event ID: 6610 Date: 1-11-2007 Time: 9:44:34 User: N/A Computer: 2ndFrontEndServer Description: Safe mode did not start successfully. This page has encountered a critical error. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
And this error for each webpart that is on a page : "Web Part Error: This page has encountered a critical error".
Kinda freaky eh? :) I checked IIS to check whether all the necessary dll's were copied in the bin folder and checked the web.config to see if everything matched the first front-end server and.. it did! So what is causing this behavior? Next I tried adding a third server to determine that the 2nd server wasn't causing this problem and luckily enough the 3rd server was displaying the same behavior. Then I tried to deploy a solution across the farm and while deploying an the following error was raised:
2ndFrontEndServer: http://portal/ : Portal 2007 : Error: The creation of this directory failed: f:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\portal80\bin. Could not find a part of the path 'f:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\portal80\bin'. 2ndFrontEndServer : Could not find a part of the path 'f:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\portal80\bin'.
Very logical error since there is no F drive on the 2nd web server. And seeing this error made me realize that everything must be identical on both servers, so when I changed the driveletter on the 2nd webserver from E to F, everything worked like a charm. No more errors on the pages, no more errors in the eventviewer and no more errors when deploying a solution!
6 comments:
Thanks for your help!After 3 days installing and reinstalling the servers we´ve found your article solving our problem =)
It´s really freaky!
Marcus
I am facing the same issue but I have only one SharePoint server. Any idea?
Me too, like Yogi
getting the same error to, on a single server. only just started to happen
Thanks for this, I had the problem come up on a single server, and your blog led me to the answer.
It turned out to be a web application which was left over from some testing, where all the sites (and directories) had been deleted, but the application had never been removed from SharePoint. Deleting the web application fixed the problem.
EXCELLENT information. Your directions are clear and concise, and easy to follow. Thanks for your hard work in posting this info.
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