Page not found: Plone on Windows

October 4, 2010 Leave a Comment

I am not talking about the gray and white screen of Enfold Proxy death. I am talking about an honest to god 404 error.  This morning I launched a site for a local elementary school and refreshed and got a 404. Then I tried some other sites on the server and also got a 404 error. The main site on the box, the school district website came up just fine.

Now then…here are the facts:

1. The district and the schools each use their own ZEOClusters
2. They each use the same Enfold Proxy Product
3. They use different app pools in IIS

My first thought was that Plone just died but then when I looked on the server 127.0.0.1/nameofsite, the site came up fine. I was about to hit IIS restart but then I noticed that the schools and the district use different app pools. I stopped the school app pool and started it again. All of the sites came back. The worker process within the app pool will restart itself 5 times before quitting. One of the websites I had recently turned off.  This could have caused an error in the worker process. I added the site back into Enfold proxy before restarting the app pool. I then stopped the site I no longer wanted but left the proxy definition in there.

I am guessing deleting the proxy definition caused the app pool to become unstable.

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About Jason
Currently I manage an award winning information portal for Durham Public Schools. I joined Durham Public Schools in 2005. As of 2009 Durham Public Schools has won 4 awards from NCSPRA for excellence in web design. In 2005 and 2006 DPS won awards for best Website for a School District among the schools districts of North Carolina. For 2007 we won 2 awards for our Construction Bond website and our Guatemala blog. In 2009 we won the National School Public Relations Association Merit award for our Graduation Project Website. At MadTek, I was responsible for the design, development, usability and deployment of the company’s information technology, web portal and business relationships. I founded MadTek, a technology consulting and web hosting company, in 1997. In 2002 MadTek became MadTek LLC. Madtek clients included: Duke University, DukeHealth, Chicago Medical Society, State of Illinois Neurosurgical Society, Precision Response Corporation, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. From 2000-2002, I was Vice President Web Operations for RateWatch, Inc., a financial reporting and services company servicing a network of 5000 banks and credit unions. At RateWatch I was responsible for developing and implementing AmazingRates.com. an online service for identifying the best Certificate of Deposit buys for consumers by comparing the rates of over 20,000 financial institutions. My work included developing the user interface, web site, gathering tools and a set of best usability practices for the company. During the period 1998-2000, I was Consulting & Support Services Director for CyFi.com, a web development and hosting company servicing financial institutions. At CyFi I was responsible for search engine and security analysis, as well as usability and regulatory compliance. From 1997 to 1998, I was a Web Developer for AT&T WorldNet and a member of the team responsible for building and implementing AT&T’s Knowledge Management System. Specialties Usability analysis, information architecture, managed portal and consulting services.

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