Unable to create any Webapp & Site Collection on SharePoint 2013 due to error 404
404 page not found Error while creating webapp & new site collection on it. After a number of web applications have been created in the SharePoint 2013 farm, further attempts to create a new web application through Central Administration result in the following: The creation process results in a ‘Page cannot be displayed’ message. The web application is only provisioned on the Central Administration server. But if you try to create a site collection on this newly created web app, it fails. Reason is it is not completely done. After struggling this for a while I found you can resolve by increasing the Shutdown time limit in IIS to a greater value. Steps taken to resolve issue : Go to application pool of Central Administration. Right click on it and go to Advanced Settings In the Process Model section, increase the shutdown time limit to 200 for example. It is a good idea to restart IIS now. After searching on net for a while I found that the reason is during the web...