SharePoint SSP Site – Page not found error

Problem:
I have faced a problem when trying to access the SSP site (Shared Services Provider) I was getting page not found error.

Cause:
After doing long investigation on this issue, I have found that the problem happened because initially when I created my first web application (SharePoint Site) with the installation of SharePoint and then created and associated my SSP with it, the link for my SSP was http://servername/ssp/admin and this application was running under port 80. Later on, when I have changed the SharePoint site (web application) to be 90 ( http://servername:90 ), the SSP will continue to have the same link http://servername/ssp/admin assuming that the site is running under port 80 which is not valid anymore and will cause the “PAGE NOT FOUND” error because the main site is now http://servername:90 and not http://servername

Solution:
There are many solutions if you faced this problem.
1. Simply you access your SSP by putting the right link of the server with the correct port number like http://servername:90/ssp/admin

2. Another solution to avoid this problem is that whenever you create a web application (SharePoint Site) and wants to change its default port, do it then create your SSP and associate it with the application.

3. A third solution will be to create a new SSP and then associate it with your site and you can delete the old SSP.
I hope this article was useful because it took effort to figure it out.

Regards,

Hamzeh Ayesh