Tips & Tricks for Managing WSS 3.0

Introduction

This article is to give the developers or system administrators who are responsible for installing WSS 3.0 for some tips which is important to keep their servers healthy and up after installing WSS 3.0 on their web servers.

Problem

If you installed WSS 3.0 on your PC, I'd like to mention some tricks if you are a .net developer or you are the person who managing web servers:

1-first, you will see that you can't debug any web application, if you are working in your development PC, and you will get error message when you are trying to debug any asp.net web site mentioning that "You are not debugger user", and you should notice that before installing WSS 3.0 you can debug any asp.net website or web service.

Problem Resolution

The Cause of this error is: after installing WSS 3.0, it creates a default site on port 80, and as you know that the default web site in IIS in listening also on port 80 that cause the Default web site doesn't work, and even if you change the port for the default SharePoint site, the site will not work.

Solution Tips & Tricks

Simply, 0pen SharePoint central administration site, go to Application managment, and click on create or extend web application, and you have to extend the new site to be in different port #.