Connecting via SPSite and accessing/Reading a list

Question

So far I am unable to access my list using a SharePoint site URL.

When I use get-spweb I get

"Cannot find an spweb object with Id or Url"

but I can easily type in the URL(https://test.contoso.com/visitors/siteName) in IE and see the site.

So therefore I can't do $list = $web.Lists to iterate through lists.

Now I can do get-spsite with the URL but then I cannot do anything at that point, I cannot use the $web.Lists nor can I use $site.title.

Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Answer 1

First of all, You should be aware of the difference between Get-SPWeb and Get-SPSite

• Get-SPWeb : is used to return all site / subsites. for more details check Get-SPWeb
• Get-SPSite: is used to return a site collection. for more details check Get-SPSite

So if the above link is a subsite, you should use Get-SPWeb, to iterate through list within a subsite , try to run the following script

• Open SharePoint Managment PowerShell as administrator
• Run the following code

Code

 $spweb = Get-SPWeb -Identity http://epm/workflow
 foreach($list in $spweb.Lists)
        {
          write-host $list.Title
        }

Output

If you need to iterate over all lists within a specific site URL in a site collection via Get-SPSite , you can use the following script

 $spsite = Get-SPSite http://rootsiteURL

foreach($spweb in $spsite.Allwebs)
        {
if ($spweb.URL -eq "http://fullsiteURL")

{
   foreach($list in $spweb.Lists)
        {
write-host $list.Title
}
}
}

Output

Note : If you tried to use Get-SPSite to access a subsite directly you will get the following error :

Answer 2

The content database the site was hosted on did not have correct permissions for the account trying to run the powershell.

This will cause the subsite to not properly show up when looking through all sites as well as it will cause an error if you try to use get-spweb.

Once the permissions were corrected the issue was resolved.