SharePoint Site Crawl Error: The item could not be accessed on the remote server because its address has an invalid syntax

Question

Hello,

 

I created an Internet-facing Publishing Site in MOSS 2007 with Anonymous access.  However when I checked the Crawl Logs to see whether it was indexed or not, I saw the following error:

 

URL: http://website

Error: The item could not be accessed on the remote server because its address has an invalid syntax

Last Content Source: Local Office SharePoint Server sites

 

Any idea why it should be happening?
 
Thanks.

 

Deepak.

Answer 1

I have the same problem:

Crawl Log

http://extranet.portal.org

"The item could not be accessed on the remote server because its address has an invalid syntax."

 

Any idea???

 

Gracias

Luis Antonio

Answer 2

In my case the solution was to do the following:

1.  Add an Alternate Access Mapping with the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the web-site

2.  Add the FQDN in IIS web-site

3.  Specify the FQDN in the Content Source instead of the host name in Shared Services -> Search Settings.

4.  Start a full crawl

 

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

As you can see by Luis' post, he is using the FQDN (not the hostname) in Search Settings, as am I, however we're still encountering the same issue.

HELP!

-Ted

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-Ted

Answer 4

Any word on this Ted, ours was working fine until resently.