Symptoms

When trying to access sharepoint site, following 404 error is thrown.

At the same time, following is logged in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS:

10/18/2013 18:54:17.54  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      b4ly    Medium          Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:<site>)&#41;. Execution Time=0,4886    c808b01e-56be-4b79-aa39-d1a6af371157
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      nasq    Medium          Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:<site>)&#41;   
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           Logging Correlation Data        xmnv    Medium          Name=Request (GET:<site>)        b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           General                         8dzw    Medium          SPHeaderManager:GetHash started b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           General                         8dzx    Medium          SPHeaderManager:GetHash finished        b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x0E80  SharePoint Foundation           General                         af71    Medium          HTTP Request method: GET        b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x0E80  SharePoint Foundation           General                         af75    Medium          Overridden HTTP request method: GET     b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:17.93  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x0E80  SharePoint Foundation           General                         af74    Medium          HTTP request URL: /     b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:18.99  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      b4ly    Medium          Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:<site>)&#41;. Execution Time=1064,6937 b1d79a91-8746-42a3-86ff-86cb1affa17f
10/18/2013 18:54:41.78  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x0EE4  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      b4ly    High            Leaving Monitored Scope (Performance Inspect Scope). Execution Time=130,8982     
10/18/2013 18:59:07.63  w3wp.exe (0x0F2C)                               0x02F8  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      nasq    Medium          Entering monitored scope (Request (GET:<site>)&#41;   

Cause

The template was applied incorrectly or site files were manually modified.

Resolution

Re-create site from scratch.

Internal content

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