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Sharepoint 2007 Central Admin on IIS7 loading a blank page

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Denys

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Jun 29, 2009, 10:44:01 AM6/29/09

We are migrating our MOSS farm to Win 2008. We have two MOSS servers
currently sitting on Win 2003. When we added the new Win 2008 server to the
SP farm, everything seemed to be working. In fact, Central Admin (from
another server on the farm) sees the server as part of the farm.
Additionally, the event logs don't have any warnings/ errors. When I try to
open Central Admin (also installed on to the new Win 2008 server) on the new
server, I only get a blank page with well-formed but blank (no content in
<HEAD> and <BODY>) HTML.
I created a simple ASP.NET page on a new web site and am able to serve that
page without a problem. The default web site's index.htm page is also served
without issue. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Henok

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Jul 1, 2009, 3:24:03 PM7/1/09

Do you have the central admin port under Inetpub\wwwroot\wss
\VirtualDirectories\?
Once you know that the url is pointing to the port number that appears
to correspond to the port number you have designated, you can do
further research.

Sometimes, Central Admin renames the port and the url would point to a
different port number than what you would know to be the port number
either from your notes or from the directory name in
VirtualDirectories.

Gabrielson@discussions.microsoft.com Joshua Gabrielson

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Jul 8, 2009, 2:42:01 PM7/8/09

I am having the same issue on my Central Admin. I can see the default page
btu the applications and operations are blank. Any Ideas??

Gabrielson@discussions.microsoft.com Joshua Gabrielson

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Jul 10, 2009, 1:45:50 PM7/10/09

Hey Henok,

Yes they are under there, the Inetpub\wwwroot\wss
\VirtualDirectories\######

I have checked the port numbers and verified this but still nothing. The
default page loads fine, but when I click the operations or applications aspx
page, its blank. Basically, everything in the _admin folder returns a blank
page. Whats strange is that I havent changed anything to the MOSS server in a
long time. I regularly go into the Central Admin, from what I can tell, it
started about a week or two ago.

Joshua Gabrielson

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Jul 29, 2009, 10:43:02 AM7/29/09

I found the issue with my problem. Turns out we installed a webpart,
SimpleChart.webpart, that altered the web.config file, adding in a line of
code within the admin folder. When I removed that line of code, the pages
started to work again. BE CAREFUL when installing those 3rd party webparts
and altering web.config files.

In this case, the following line was added to the admin web.config file:

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