Hi Recently, I had set up sharepoint in our server. It had been running fine until I had seen another web application, created from vs2005 for company inventory program in asp.net, STOPPED in iis mangement console. The problem was due to a new sharepoint web application trying to use the same port that the existing web application was using.(Port 80). Being new to sharepoint and setting it up, I had tried to change the port to another empty port within iis by right clicking on the web site, create/extend the existing web application so that the ports are not conflicting. These tasks had created a few web application that I needed to clean up in iis. I've looked it up in google search and found that I could remove them. So I did. I may have used either "Remove SharePoint from IIS Web site" or "Delete Web application". Now I can't find out the existing version of sharepoint web site. How would I go about finding out whether I've really deleted the site? Is there any way to recover it? I've made an archive(ZIP) on the existing sharepoint web application before making these changes but I am not sure how to use them to build a new sharepoint web application. Thanks in advance.

Hi,1- you can check if this web application exist or not from central administration, go to central administration -> application management -> web application list , check if your web application exist or not.2- if you delete your web application, did you also delete content database of that web application ? if you don't delete it, this means that your content database exist on DBServer so you need to do the following :- a- Create New web application from central administartion. b- delete content database of your new web application. c- use stsadm command to add your old content database to your web application as the following:- stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://portal -databasename youroldDB -databaseserver yourDBserver.3- if you also delete your content database not only IIS website, you need to restore your recent backup to SQL, a- restore your recent Backup to DBserver. b- Create New web application from central administartion. c- delete content database of your new web application. d- use stsadm command to add your old content database to your web application as the following:- stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://portal -databasename youroldDB -databaseserver yourDBserver. Best Regrads, Ahmed Madany

1 - I think I can see the name and when I look into the "content database", I can see databaes name with "current number of sites" set to 1. Other web application is set to zero. 2 - not sure whether I have deleted the content database of that web application. 3 - I have no back up so no luck here. I will give a shot on steps described on number 2 and post my result here. Thanks

Hi,1- you can check if this web application exist or not from central administration, go to central administration -> application management -> web application list , check if your web application exist or not.2- if you delete your web application, did you also delete content database of that web application ? if you don't delete it, this means that your content database exist on DBServer so you need to do the following :- a- Create New web application from central administartion. b- delete content database of your new web application. c- use stsadm command to add your old content database to your web application as the following:- stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://portal -databasename youroldDB -databaseserver yourDBserver.3- if you also delete your content database not only IIS website, you need to restore your recent backup to SQL, a- restore your recent Backup to DBserver. b- Create New web application from central administartion. c- delete content database of your new web application. d- use stsadm command to add your old content database to your web application as the following:- stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://portal -databasename youroldDB -databaseserver yourDBserver. Best Regrads, Ahmed Madany Do you have any idea where the content database files are kept? I've looked in SQL database server mangement but was unable to find it.

Hi,Content Database are kept in SQL server, you can find it by using SQL management studioBest Regrads, Ahmed Madany