Search pages throwing 403 forbidden

My search pages on my WCM site are suddenly all throwing 403 forbidden
errors. In the event logs I see the following:

Event code: 4011
Event message: An unhandled access exception has occurred.
Event time: 8/21/2008 1:57:34 PM
Event time (UTC): 8/21/2008 6:57:34 PM
Event ID: 702b08b27b4844c3b5dc98954429c8e7
Event sequence: 1261
Event occurrence: 4
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/358371809/Root-3-128638053330574511
Trust level: WSS_Minimal
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories
\dev80\
Machine name: DEV

Process information:
Process ID: 2784
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: sharepoint_service

Request information:
Request URL: http://dev/search/Pages/search.aspx?k=jane
Request path: /search/Pages/search.aspx
User host address: 10.10.4.184
User:
Is authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name: sharepoint_service

I have googled the event errors and have seen some similar problems
but most of those people report the issue as intermittent which mine
is not. I have tried everything I can think of without any changes.

My environment is a single server farm running MOSS 2007 SP1 with the
latest rollup hotfixes.

Mike
Fri Aug 22 04:21:54 CDT 2008

First place I would look in is Active Directory, is there a user
sharepoint_service who is member of the Administrators group?
Second, does he has read/write permissions on the Virtual directory
containing the site
(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\dev80\.......)

Hope this helps!

"james" <jamessqr@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:aafd14f6-e184-4b48-a52f-f532010e3490@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> My search pages on my WCM site are suddenly all throwing 403 forbidden
> errors. In the event logs I see the following:
>
> Event code: 4011
> Event message: An unhandled access exception has occurred.
> Event time: 8/21/2008 1:57:34 PM
> Event time (UTC): 8/21/2008 6:57:34 PM
> Event ID: 702b08b27b4844c3b5dc98954429c8e7
> Event sequence: 1261
> Event occurrence: 4
> Event detail code: 0
>
> Application information:
> Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/358371809/Root-3-128638053330574511
> Trust level: WSS_Minimal
> Application Virtual Path: /
> Application Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories
> \dev80\
> Machine name: DEV
>
> Process information:
> Process ID: 2784
> Process name: w3wp.exe
> Account name: sharepoint_service
>
> Request information:
> Request URL: http://dev/search/Pages/search.aspx?k=jane
> Request path: /search/Pages/search.aspx
> User host address: 10.10.4.184
> User:
> Is authenticated: False
> Authentication Type:
> Thread account name: sharepoint_service
>
> I have googled the event errors and have seen some similar problems
> but most of those people report the issue as intermittent which mine
> is not. I have tried everything I can think of without any changes.
>
> My environment is a single server farm running MOSS 2007 SP1 with the
> latest rollup hotfixes.

Callahan
Sat Aug 23 00:08:06 CDT 2008

James,

If you can't find your answer here, it may be because this is the newsgroup
for Windows SharePoint Services, not MOSS 2007. You may want to post on one
of the other newsgroups where people are using MOSS-- such as
sharepoint.portalserver, .general, or even .setup_and_administration.

Of all the microsoft.public.sharepoint newsgroups, this is the only one
dedicated to WSS. Administering and troubleshooting search for WSS is a bit
different than search for MOSS, so you may have more luck in those other
newsgroups.

-callahan
"james" <jamessqr@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:aafd14f6-e184-4b48-a52f-f532010e3490@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> My search pages on my WCM site are suddenly all throwing 403 forbidden
> errors. In the event logs I see the following:
>
> Event code: 4011
> Event message: An unhandled access exception has occurred.
> Event time: 8/21/2008 1:57:34 PM
> Event time (UTC): 8/21/2008 6:57:34 PM
> Event ID: 702b08b27b4844c3b5dc98954429c8e7
> Event sequence: 1261
> Event occurrence: 4
> Event detail code: 0
>
> Application information:
> Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/358371809/Root-3-128638053330574511
> Trust level: WSS_Minimal
> Application Virtual Path: /
> Application Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories
> \dev80\
> Machine name: DEV
>
> Process information:
> Process ID: 2784
> Process name: w3wp.exe
> Account name: sharepoint_service
>
> Request information:
> Request URL: http://dev/search/Pages/search.aspx?k=jane
> Request path: /search/Pages/search.aspx
> User host address: 10.10.4.184
> User:
> Is authenticated: False
> Authentication Type:
> Thread account name: sharepoint_service
>
> I have googled the event errors and have seen some similar problems
> but most of those people report the issue as intermittent which mine
> is not. I have tried everything I can think of without any changes.
>
> My environment is a single server farm running MOSS 2007 SP1 with the
> latest rollup hotfixes.