While reconfiguring the Search Service Application in our SharePoint 2013 development environment I received the following error when I tried to start the crawl:
Error:
Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has “Full Read” permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.
Solution:
After verifying that the account did indeed have the correct permission I did a little digging and found that this was caused by a very common SharePoint headache. Here’s how to disable the LoopBackCheck:
Manually:
PowerShell:New-ItemProperty HKLM:SystemCurrentControlSetControlLsa -Name “DisableLoopbackCheck” -Value “1″ -PropertyType dword