RESOLVED : Unable to access WAS Admin Console

After I tried out the steps to resolve the WC Publishing issue as detailed out in my post -

http://wcs-hub.blogspot.in/2012/03/application-failed-to-install-wc.html

I found that I am unable to access the WAS Admin Console. Each time I try and access using the following URL -

https://localhost:9043/ibm/console/

I could see the following exception in the SystemOut.log -

7/1/09 11:08:49:971 CDT] 00000026 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/ has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:13:41:064 CDT] 00000027 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/ has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:13:56:705 CDT] 00000027 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/ has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:14:15:471 CDT] 00000026 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/ has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:14:30:424 CDT] 00000026 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/logon.jsp has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:14:53:299 CDT] 00000027 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/logon.jsp has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:15:11:939 CDT] 00000027 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/ has not been defined.
[7/1/09 11:15:45:236 CDT] 00000026 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /IBM/console/ has not been defined.

In Mozilla , I could see the following error -

I searched a lot of forums but no concrete solution. I found this suggestion in a forum which may work out for you (thought it did work for me! ) -

The problem has been fixed by executing this script: ${WAS_HOME}/bin/iscdeploy.bat -restore

I then went on to compare the folders which we had backed up in the previous post

- WCDE_installdir/wasprofile/config/cells/localhost/cus
- WCDE_installdir/wasprofile/config/cells/localhost/blas
- WCDE_installdir/wasprofile/temp

I found only the "WC" module has been restored and all other modules listed below are missing -

• ibmasyncrsp
•  IBMUTC
•  isclite
•  soccom

If the same is the case for you , just restore the missing module folders from the backup and restart the server. The WAS Admin Console will be up and running!