sharepoint

Another reason SharePoint could prompt for authentication on anonymous sites

I see a lot of people saying they are getting auth prompts for public anonymous content on SharePoint sites. Once you have anonymous enabled in Central Admin and in the site collection, you'd expect it to be all good right? I discovered one more

security

SharePoint and IIS Sites Unavailable From Localhost

Also seen as: search is running but no results returned search errors in event log (can't access content, etc.) you can access sites fine from other boxes but not from the local server only seems to happen for URL's (http://sitename1, http://sitename2) that