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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:31 AM

Hello All,

I am getting the following error when I open the CA. However I am able to open the sites that I created using CA.

Hope my word are clear enough.

Thank U

Thanks & Regards, Chandra Shekhar Rameneni

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 8:04 AM âś…Answered

Hi Chandra,

Based on my research, the error message is only generated by FireFox when the render page is blank in Internet. For some reason, .NET generates a response type of "application/xml" when it creates an empty page. Firefox parses the file as XML and finding no root element, spits out the error message.
Also, based on your description, the other sites are opened correctly, the issue only happened in Central Administration(CA). This means the SharePoint services are working fine.

Since this issue only occurred in the CA, it might be due the application pool for the CA is corrupted. Please try to restart the application pool for the CA to resove the issue:

  1. Open Internet Information Service(IIS)
  2. List the application pools
  3. Select the application pool used for the CA
  4. Stop it, and then start it again.

Note, if the application pool is running in Classic mode, please change it to be Integrated mode.

Additionally, I found a similar thread, which may help you too:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010general/thread/824d7dda-db03-452b-99c4-531c5c576396

If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks,
Jin Chen

Jin Chen - MSFT

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 7:03 AM

And oh I forgot to specify I am using Sharepoint 2010 trial and I am getting the error on mozilla and in windows explorer I am getting:

The wesite cannot display this page.

Most likely causes:

  • The website is under maintenance
  • The website has a programming error

Do I need to change the port number or something like that??? Please suggest

Thanks.

Thanks & Regards, Chandra Shekhar Rameneni

Friday, June 27, 2014 3:55 PM

Hi,

I have this type of problem too. I did what you wrote. But noting has changed. My situation is I wanted to configure sharepoint app store. Everything was done correctly. I installed app form store. When clicked to open installed app it prompt popup to login. After login the error occured.