Page load issue in alternate access mapping

Question

my sharepoint site in running port 80, with custom master page. Every thing works fine when I access with default url (http://servername/site/sitename/pages/home.aspx) .

but When I access the same site with alternate access mapped URL (portal.domain.com), cutom webpart works fine but all OOB feature stop working.

i.e. 1. Dropdown menu in global navigation does not work. 2. When i open any list or library, nothing display (but at same time i access the default url list/libraries showing data)

My findings:

1. I am not able to open any SharePoint site directly from IIS (localhost:80, localhost:14552). It shows page not found 404 error.

2. I not able to access any site via host name (servername:portNumber), to access any web application (Site), I need to mention whole url till site name at least (servername:portNumber/sites/sitename)

3. I am using Http redirection to open the localhost to site url. and at the same time getting following error in event view.

   • System

     • Provider

     [ Name] System.ServiceModel 4.0.0.0

     • EventID 3

     [ Qualifiers] 49154

     Level 2

     Task 5

     Keywords 0x80000000000000

     • TimeCreated

     [ SystemTime] 2016-02-19T21:34:57.000000000Z

     EventRecordID 24894

     Channel Application

     Computer servername-SP.servername.in

     • Security

     [ UserID] S-1-5-21-322102146-2961557765-1777964600-1234

   • EventData

     System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/56528460 System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/_vti_bin/listdata.svc' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq.ListDataService..ctor() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor) at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) at System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceDescription.CreateImplementation(Type serviceType) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost.CreateDescription(IDictionary`2& implementedContracts) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.InitializeDescription(UriSchemeKeyedCollection baseAddresses) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost..ctor(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Services.MultipleBaseAddressDataServiceHostFactory.CreateServiceHost(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses) at System.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHostFactory.CreateServiceHost(String constructorString, Uri[] baseAddresses) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.CreateService(String normalizedVirtualPath, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.ActivateService(ServiceActivationInfo serviceActivationInfo, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.EnsureServiceAvailable(String normalizedVirtualPath, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.EnsureServiceAvailable(String normalizedVirtualPath, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.EnsureServiceAvailableFast(String relativeVirtualPath, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) w3wp 5028

Adding Screenshot of IIS binding...

Binding of Original Site

Binding of extended site

kindly suggest.....

Answer 1

You didn't specify how 'HTTP redirection' you mentioned is configured, but https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2818415 is a very nice article that explains url rewrites - both symmetrical (http://srv1/sites/site1 -> http://srv2/sites/site1) and asymmetrical (http://srv1/sites/site1 -> http://srv2/s1)

If you want to be able to access http://servername/site/sitename/ site collection by http://portal.domain.com/ address, that's not quite AAM thing, but something covered by HNSC feature. Please take a look at this article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx ('Convert path-based site collections to host-named site collections' section)