SharePoint Troubleshooting: default page not loading by default.aspx

2024-01-17

Introduction

Administrator can't browse SharePoint 80 or SharePoint Central Administration v4 or any sites using the default URL (http://webserver/).

Trying to do this locally from the actual server SharePoint is running on.

Error

It gives a HTTP 404 'Webpage cannot be found' error in IE. If I want to view either of these, I have to specifically type default.aspx manually:

http://webserver/default.aspx to view the SharePoint 80 site
http://webserver:port/default.aspx to view central admin.

It is the same when using local host instead of web server. I again will have to enter default.aspx to come the pages up.

Troubleshooting

Here are some things I've tried already but had no luck:

Added http://webserver and other relevant names in Alternate Access Mappings

Ensured Default.aspx is top of the list in 'Default Documents' in IIS7

Checked the hosts file

Set DisableloopbackCheck in registry and restarted.

Solution

You can resolve the issue with running the products and technologies wizard. Once the wizard is successful, All the sites including central admin came up by default without manually typing the default.aspx.

See more

http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2014/01/sharepoint-default-page-not-loading-by.html

Note

I resolved the issue by above Method. If you find a different solution, please report it as a comment to this post. This will be useful to SharePoint Community. Be sure to double-verify it: undo your solution and verify that the problem comes back, then redo it and verify that the problem goes away.

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