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SharePoint 2013 Search Crawl Error: Access is denied.
March 12, 2014
Quisitive
Having trouble reconfiguring the Search Service Application in SharePoint 2013?

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