Sharepoint 2010 Security Token Issue

I’ve migrated a Sharepoint 3.0 box to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation a few months ago using the Database Attach method.  The upgrade went well but I could not get the search functionality to work no matter how I tried.  The error below pops up at the Application Event Log which clearly states that there is a problem in the Security  Token mechanism.

An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: Could not connect to http://localhost:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc/actas. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:32843. .

FIX: Long story short, I have to setup a new Sharepoint 2010 box and then migrate the SQL database to the new server.

Lessons Learned:
1. I’ve learned how to migrate to Sharepoint 2010 over and over [maybe 4x]
2. I’ve learned how to fix a Sharepoint 2010 Search issues [Link]
3. I’ve learned how to fix the .pdf issue “not searching pdf” [Link] [Link2]