Lotus Nut

Let's consider that for some reason your Connections server went down due to, say, a major power outage. Everything comes up ok except for Blogs (it could be another service as well, though) and you are getting the following error message:



When I was thinking about why this could be happening, I thought that either (a) there was a key file that was open but got corrupted, or (b) hopefully I just need to clear the Blogs cache directory because of corruption there. To make a long story short, it appears to have been a problem with the cache (whew...)!

The cache for a WAS server application is here:

[WAS_ROOT}\profiles\{Profile}\temp\{Node}\{application}

In this case it was:

C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\myprofile\temp\mynode\BlogsServer

Basically, I shut down the server process, moved all of the files in the BlogsServer folder over to another location on the disk, and then started the server to let it create the temp files again. Thankfully, everything came back up alright. Oddly, the Homepage was rendering the blogs widget just fine - it was just the direct URL that wasn't working.