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2825956 - Portal Error 'unable to retrieve the Alias Service' when calling irj/portal

Symptom

  • When calling http://<host>:<port>/irj/portal within your browser, you receive an error:
    Error: Application error occurred during the request processing.
  • Within the developer/default trace log files you observe the following error:
    "unable to retrieve the Alias Service

    [EXCEPTION]
    javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name not found: com.sap.portal.navigation.AliasService.AliasService [Root exception is com.sapportals.portal.prt.service.ServiceException: Error while retrieving service: com.sap.portal.navigation.AliasService.AliasService]
    at com.sap.portal.prt.broker.jndi.ContextForServices.getObject(ContextForServices.java:37)
    at com.sap.portal.prt.broker.jndi.ContextImpl.lookupChild(ContextImpl.java:22)
    ...
    Caused by: com.sapportals.portal.prt.service.ServiceException: Error while retrieving service: com.sap.portal.navigation.AliasService.AliasServiceat com.sap.portal.prt.service.ServiceManager.get(ServiceManager.java:270)
    ...
    Caused by: com.sap.portal.prt.broker.PortalModuleNotFoundException: Could not retrieve portal application com.sap.portal.navigation.AliasService.AliasService
    at com.sap.portal.prt.broker.PortalAppBroker.ensurePortalModuleIsStarted(PortalAppBroker.java:640)
    ..."

  • Checking the System Software Component Information (http://<host>:<port>/nwa/sysinfo), several core Enterprise Portal components are missing including:
    • EP-ADMIN
    • EP-CONNECTIVITY
    • EP-FLP (7.50 only)
    • EP-RUNTIME


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Environment

  • SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java release independent
  • Enterprise Portal

Product

SAP NetWeaver all versions

Keywords

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