Friday, April 16, 2010

Error in Site Data WebService

Just recently I was trying to track down an indexer issue on MOSS 2007 in the Shared Services Provider (SSP). The error was "Error in the Site Data Web Service" in the location of http://<ssp web host>/ssp/admin/Content.


After digging around in the logs I found an error to the call: GetWebDefaultPage. After pointing SharePoint Designer at this Content sub site (which hosts the BDC entity display template pages) in the SSP host, I found out that there is no default page (default.aspx).


You can do 4 things to solve this problem.



  1. Ignore it

  2. Create a crawl rule to skip this site completely

  3. Create an empty Default.aspx in the site

  4. Remove the SSP host from the Local SharePoint Sites Content source.


I am not convinced Option 2 is a good idea as it could lead to strange searhc behaviour especially with BDC applications.


In our environment, we decided on Option 4 as we had no need to index the SSP at the moment.


I hope this helps.


Nate


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