Critical Error: SiteUrls.Config

Specific Error Message:

Unable to open connection to data provider.

Connection Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed during the post-login phase. The connection could have timed out while waiting for server to complete the login process and respond; Or it could have timed out while attempting to create multiple active connections. The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=10; handshake=12; [Login] initialization=0; authentication=1; [Post-Login] complete=14750;

The wait operation timed out

Please contact your site administrator. An explanation for why this error could occur is below.


Community Server expects to find a valid XML file containing all of the links for a community. By default, this file is located at the root of the with the name SiteUrls.config. 

A common error is that SiteUrls.config included unescaped XML characters, such as "&" when defining a querystring.


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