Environment: MOSS SP1 with Feb CU - WIndows Server 2003
I noticed this issue today after installing the Feb CU last week. The sharepoint crawler was not crawling any sites that had a DNS alias to itself. For example, my servername was myserver01 and I have a DNS alias called myportal. The crawler would not crawl http://myportal and anything under it. This sucks.
My error from the event viewer:
Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205)
My error from the crawl logs:
Deleted by the gatherer (This item was deleted because its parent was deleted.) Huh?
The fix
Apparently, now you have to Disable the Loopback Check.
- Open regedit
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
- Under Lsa, create a DWORD value called DisableLoopbackCheck
- In Value, type 1
- Close regedit
Crawls work as normal.
Update:
I wrongly blamed the Feb CU for this. It was just a coincidence as I see the problem with one of my servers without the patch. I'm now thinking it was one of the recent (conflicker?) patches put on by the server boys...