I have looked in quite a few places but all the information I have seen does not address my scenario. Please note that I can probably just make a new server for my SharePoint 2013 installation but I think this might be one of those gems for people who do not have that luxury and facing the same problem.
SCENARIO:
I uninstalled a functional SharePoint 2013 setup by
- uninstalling SharePoint 2013 on the SharePoint Server and
- manually deleting the databases on the remote SQL Server.
When I tried to reinstall SharePoint 2013 though I kept getting a 503 Error on the Central Administration page which appears to be due to the Central Administration AppPool stopping.
SUGGESTIONS I HAVE TRIED:
- Check the password of the account running the AppPool service.
- I did that and the account have Domain Administrator privileges and is capable of logging into the SQL Server without issue using the same password.
- Try uninstalling IIS.
- I uninstalled and reinstalled IIS and it made still gave the 503 error.
I read on a blog post (let me know if I can send the link) that "[he] need[ed] to clean up the content db, virtual directory and app pool properly next time."
I believe I did this but I may be missing something and that bit of stuck information is probably what is causing the issue.
Any thoughts?
