Search errors and Administration pages not loading



Hopefully somebody here can help.

We have a sharepoint implementation with 5 portals. The main portal
offers shared services such as search etc for the other portals. One
box does everything, SQL Server, Search Index and host the sites. The
problem is we recieve is that when a user runs a search he recieves the
following "Your search encountered an error. If the problem persists,
contact the portal site administrator.". I am fairly certain that has
to do with indexing and will have to recreate the index etc. The
second problem is I cannot open the indexes and propgation section of
the administration pages. The whole thing simply hangs and trys to
load but nothing happens.

So I have two questions.

How do I delete the index's? I have read you simply remove search and
index options for the server along with the job server then reset it
back is that correct?

Also does anyone have any ideas as to why I cannot get to the
management pages mentioned above?

Thanks

.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Migrating from one PC to another
    ... So before you start the restore there should ... be no portals on your machine. ... Create a virtual server on Server B. ... and the database server name and database names for the site ...
    (microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver)
  • RE: New Portal Creation Problem
    ... This is NOT a new server installation and I have ... > been able to create about 10 portals on the same server without a ... > access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean useAsync, String ...
    (microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver.development)
  • Re: repost: multiple portals vs. one portal with multiple sites
    ... We have one company and we are running SPS and SQL on the same server. ... Portals also allow for better search narrowing and it empowers ... The company as a whole has better communications in this type of environment ...
    (microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver)
  • Can a secondary portal be created on a virtual server created without a new port or IP address?
    ... Servers using host headers/dns records and one IP. ... child portals unless you configure shared services. ... just pick the additional virtual server from the ...
    (microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver)
  • Cannot create Portal site
    ... I installed SPS2003 on win2k3 server with SQL 2000 server in the same box ... I tried to create a portal site in the administrator page but it give me ... "You can create portals only on servers that are running the Web component ... To activate the Web component on this server, ...
    (microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver)