Re: Unable to get global configuration data.

Well, here is what I'm trying to accomplish so I can make sure I do this
correctly:

First of all, www.mysite.com is the address for our public facing website.
I need this to remain this way. The first time I installed Sharepoint, I did
a typical install and it "took over" my IIS and made Sharepoint the default
website instead of my normal website.

So I uninstalled and reinstalled with the Server Farm option so that I could
indicate a Custom URL so that the public would still go to www.mysite.com and
staff would go to www.mysite.com/intranet to get to our intranet which I want
to be Sharepoint and which should require a user be on the netowork to access
and should automatically authenticate them.

First, was this the correct thing to do? Is there a better way to set up
this scenario than what I'm trying? This all does have to reside on the same
box. Windows 2003, IIS 6.

Second, now that I have done this I am having trouble accessing the
Sharepoint site as mentioned in all my above posts).

Third, the public site is not accessible to users outside the network. I
didn't realize this until today. I was testing it at work and all appeared
well, but it must have been authenticating me. From the outside, it is
popping up a log in box.

SO... end result, I have to have our public site up by tomorrow afternoon
and I am worried that I am going to have to resort to uninstall again at this
point. I'm assuming the log in problem is due to Windows Authentication, but
I thought for sure I had anonymous selected on IIS. I cannot get to any of
this until tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you for all your help. I will look at what you have posted (the past
couple of posts) and see if I can get this working, otherwise I will
uninstall and try again.

"adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Ok, lets back a minute chief :)

First of all, you need to decide what FQDN you want to set your site up
with. It typically isn't a relative URL like www.yoursite.com/intranet. You
might have entered some URL in central admin that is confusing SharePoint
under the custom URL access page, which you talked about in the beginning of
this thread, remove that.

My suggestion is to instead query your intranet by using
intranet.mysite.com. This is going to be in the host header entry that we
were talking about before, so switch that around.

Next, step onto your domain controller, this is where all your DNS records
are going to be housed. Read this article which will detail what you are
going to have to do.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324260

This will show you how to setup the dns things you need. So, the flow looks
like this:

user query -> request looked up in DNS -> DNS says xx.xx.xx.xx IP points to
intranet.mysite.com -> request sent to that web server -> virtual server
picks it up via your host headers -> virtual server serves content (i.e. your
SharePoint site)[Please no one flame me I know this is simplified]

If you can query it and display the site locally, the hard part is done, you
just have to make sure that all your end users can hit it :)

Adam Buenz
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com

"SharinDenver" wrote:

Ok... I pinged www.mysite.com and it returned an ip (this is our public
facing website, not on Sharepoint). I am trying to access Sharepoint at
www.mysite.com/intranet. This did not return an ip address.

If I were to try and create the DNS myself, how would I go about doing this?
Is this done from the web server?

"adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

No worries, do this.

Go to run, type in CMD. do this command:

ping http://whatyourarecallingyoursite

see if it returns an IP. If it doesn't you need to add a DNS record (or your
admin) that will route the friendly name to your IP of your SPS box.

Seriously don't worry about asking the questions, its what the newsgroups
are for.

Adam Buenz
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com

"SharinDenver" wrote:

um...

(that means I'm not sure)

steps to take to check this? The server and IIS and "stuff" was set up by
someone else and now I'm taking it over and I'm afraid I'm underqualified.
Learning.


"adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

First off man you have to have a dns entry so that your network knows how to
resolve whatever you are pointing in there, do you have that in place?

Adam Buenz
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com

"SharinDenver" wrote:

Ok... I went into IIS, Web Sites, Sharepoint Central Administration and right
clicked and selected properties. It did say All Unassigned with a port. I
clicked on Advanced and clicked Add. I kept it as All Unassigned, used the
same port as the other one, and called it "intranet". I reset IIS. This did
not work. I have a feeling I'm not really doing what I'm supposed to. :)

"adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

ok, well you are going to need to set the host headers then, it doesnt know
how to resolve the default website. Go into IIS, right click on the virtual
server, select advaned on the first page that comes up (it should be next to
your IP assignment, which should be set to all unassigned unless you are
binding an IP and have SP2), there you can enter the name you want your site
to resolve too :)

Adam Buenz
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com



"SharinDenver" wrote:

I am able to access the site now since I changed teh Identity on the App Pool
to my account. However, I am only able to access the site if I am physically
on the web server (http://localhost/intranet). I cannot access it from my
personal computer (http://url/intranet). It asks me to log in (network login
pop up) and will not accept my login.

"Bob Fox" wrote:

Are you using Windows Authentication or SQL Authentication?

Bob Fox
http://bobfox.net


"SharinDenver" <SharinDenver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E9923664-E8EC-4B59-B27F-676653A82F47@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ok... the only thing in this article
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823287)
i think it could be is

The account that is used by application pool does not have the required
permissions to the SQL Server database.

How do i set db access on teh app pool?



"SharinDenver" wrote:

Ok... I made Network Service a dbo on the db. Now I get this error:

Unable to connect to database. Check database connection information and
make sure the database server is running. For tips on troubleshooting
this
error, search for article 823287 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at
http://support.microsoft.com.


The database is running and it is on the same machine as WSS is
installed.
I am in the process of trying to figure this one out, but if anyone can
save
me some time, I'm all ears. :)

"adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

This might be your issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;900499

Adam Buenz
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com

"SharinDenver" wrote:

I have installed Sharepoint Services using the Server Farm option and
setting
a Custom URL. When I try and access the site, I get the following
message:

Unable to get global configuration data.

What's happening?



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