enterprise search center unavailable when installing sharepoint 2010 in stand alone mode

Question

I'm running a w2008r2x64 vm where I have a fresh install of sharepoint 2010. The install was "farm" then "stand alone"

When I enter the site (set up as a Team Site) and tries to create a new site, choosing either enterprise search center or fast search senter, I get an error:

An unexpected error has occured.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It will be hard to answer you like that, with so few informations.

Please could you log in the central administration, and control that the SharePoint Server Search service is started on the server, if not activate it.

Then, control that you have a running Search Service Application in the Service Applications.

If all these points are ok, try to control the logs in the 14, and read the full error.