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Problem

I seem to get all the PKI/Certificate services problems! Yesterday I was trying to use the web enrolment portal on a certificate services server, and could not get in locally, (or remotely) via http, (or https) it simply showed me a 403.14 error.

HTTP Error 403.14 Forbidden

Solution

This was an odd one, in IIS Manager select the ‘Certsrv’ virtual directory > Advanced Options > And look at the ‘Path’.

Mine was missing the ‘en-us‘ folder from the end of the path!

Note: You will need to open an administrative command window, and then execute an iisreset command, before the change will take effect.

Problem

I spun up a new Certificate Services server on my test network today, because I needed to issue some certificates for something I’m working on. It was a pretty vanilla build, just the Certificate Services role, and the Web Enrollment feature.

Solution

I spent a while searching this one down, as you can see (above) it was showing me the root cause of the problem. The page you normally see when you log into the web portal is default.asp, and that file is not in that folder.

1. Open IIS manager and then open the settings for the CertSrv virtual directory. Use the browse button to change the location.

2. Change the location to the sub folder en-US (or if you are in a different locale select your local one). > OK > OK.

3. Restart the web services and try again.</p?

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