TFS 2012: URL not reachable

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after a servercrash we installed TFS on a new server. I used Application Tier only for restoring the databases, and in the Team Foundation Express Administration Console everything shows up.

When on the server I surf to the URL I get a Windows login screen and after entering credentials it proceeds to the website.

However, if I try this from an PC, the URL is not reachable.

I've checked the firewall (even disabled it for test), put port 8080 is added.

I gues something is wrong with the authentication, hence the Windows login screen, but fail to find.

Anyone ideas?

I use TFS Express 2012.4 on Server 2019

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I found TFS Powertools and this revealed a service account was missing a SQL login. So I created the service account, but how to grant it SQL login? – Jeroen E
Managed to add service account, but still no luck. Powertools report no more errors. When on server I use the localhost:8080/tfs URL it works, but when I use the http://<servername>:8080/tfs I get the windows login screen. Can't figure ouy why. – Jeroen E
Reboot of server fixed most of the last issues, and I forgot to grant port 8080 access for private. Had only domain selected. – Jeroen E

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Since you are able to access http://localhost:8080/tfs url and work properly.

This tell you TFS is up and running. So issue should not related to IIS side.

Try to disable loopback by creating registry key under the location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\DisableLoopbackCheck and assigned the value “1”.

Details follow this blog.

If you do not want to disable your firewall during daily usage. Make sure Port 8080 is open in Windows firewall.

Also take a look at this similar issue: TFS url with server name is not working