When I start the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration link I get a 'The Page cannot be displayed'. In the address field I have the name of the server with a port number of :42862 Need help. I'm trying to connect to an existing database that I somehow have lost my connection to. I used the following command line to, what I'm assuming reconnect to the database. psconfig.exe -cmd configdb -connect -server [Server Name] -database [Database Name] -dbuser [DBUser SQL authentication] -dbpassword [Password for DBUser] -user [SharePoint Farm User Account] -password [Password for SharePoint Farm User Account]. Upon completion of running the preceeding command, it says that all three configuration tasks have completed. (1) Initializing SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration (2) Connecting to the configuration database (3) Finalizing the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration Successfully stopped the configuration of SharePoint Products and TechnologiesConfiguration of the SharePoint Products and Technologies has succeeded. Need help.

Check in IIS to see if a Central Administration site exists (on the port that you require) if it is absent you will probably need to provision the central admin site also. Try: psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -provision -port 42862 -windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm Otherwise if it something like its picked a different random port, it should tell you in IIS what port it has used.

Thanks Georg Thomas, ^5 That exactly solved the problem! If you feel inclined, what does that statement 'psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -provision -port 42862 -windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm' tell SharePoint and/or Windows to do. Secondly, what could have caused my inability to access the central administration site? Big smile because it's resolve, but confused about the cause.

Glad to hear its fixed it for you, the command basically runs the step of the Configuration wizard that creates the Central Administration IIS site, the previous command you ran creates/connects to the farm, but doesnt create the host. As for the cause, its a bit hard to tell without knowing the steps before hand, it could be something as simple as running the Wizard and choosing not to have the host, or it could have been the IIS site being deleted. Not sure, would recommend checkingEvent Viewerfor any errors that occured around the same time it dissappeared.

Glad to hear its fixed it for you, the command basically runs the step of the Configuration wizard that creates the Central Administration IIS site, the previous command you ran creates/connects to the farm, but doesnt create the host. As for the cause, its a bit hard to tell without knowing the steps before hand, it could be something as simple as running the Wizard and choosing not to have the host, or it could have been the IIS site being deleted. Not sure, would recommend checking Event Viewer for any errors that occured around the same time it dissappeared. Thanks George.This worked for me.Nasar

I had the same issue but a simple iisreset from the command prompt fixed mine.