Don't have access to SharePoint site I created

Question

I've created a new site collection in Central Admin on my SharePoint server. However when I type in the new site URL I get the "Sorry, this site hasn't been shared with you." Is there a way to share the site with myself through Central Admin?

My user account has the following settings on Central Admin:

• Farm Administrator
• Primary Site Collection Administrator (of the site I'm trying to access)
• In Application Management\Manage web applications\User Policy - my user account has full control

I should note: I created a site a while back and I could go to the URL and add doc libraries and lists etc. but I've somehow lost the ability to do so? So I did have access at one point. I don't know what change was made to restrict that.

I'm new to sharepoint so any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Thought I'd post an update as the problem has been resolved.

When I was troubleshooting I deleted and recreated multiple site collections to see if it made any difference - it did not.

Finally I gave up, deleted my original web application on port 80 and recreated it. Added a site collection. And configured the permissions on that webapp.

The new web app works perfectly. Not sure what exactly went wrong with the previous one, but my solution was to rebuild from scratch.

It is working as should, I can share the site with other users and build off of it.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Answer 2

Try the following:

SharePoint 2010 / 2013: Access Denied to claims web apps

Excerpt from the article:

Cause

In the Local Security Policy | Local Policies | User Rights Assignment, “Bypass traverse checking” -- did not have the “Everyone” or “Users” group listed here, or anything that would contain the IUSR account. Because IUSR did not have this permission, it could not traverse C:\inetpub\, or C:\inetpub\wwwroot\, etc to get to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80, and therefore was showing access denied for that directory even though it had permission at that level.

Resolution

1. Add a group that contains IUSR to “Bypass traverse checking” in the Local Security Policy. This could be “Everyone”, or “NT Authority\Authenticated Users”, or “Users”.
2. Gpudate /force
3. IISReset Note: These policies may be pushed down to the machines via GPO, so you may have to change it at that level.

Answer 3

Couple of things to check.

• What authentication method you are using, ADFS, Claims or FBA. and make sure correct account added into the primary site collection admin.
• Create another site collection and test it.
• try to access the site collection via farm admin account.
• Make sure you configured the Object Cache setting for your web app correctly. three things involved in it, add user into Policy of web app, run powershell to update and reset IIS on all servers. more details about how to configure it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758656(v=office.15).aspx... most access denied of wrong configurtion of Object cache.