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I have some code that queries the esri webserver for a list of services.

I start off with:

https://MyEsriUrl/arcgis/rest/services?f=sitemap

That code worked for years.

We recently attached a portal to our esri webserver. We're now running v10.5 of both.

Now, the esri admin can issue this command in the browser and it still works, but if I issue it I get an empty list back.

I thought it might be a permissions issue except for three facts:

(1) If I go to https://MyEsriUrl/arcgis/rest/services I can see everything I ought to see.

(2) I've found out that I can now use https://MyEsriUrl/arcgis/rest/services?f=json and that also works correctly.

(3) Esri admin added me to the esri admin role and I still can't see anything with ?f=sitemap.

Obviously, I can rewrite the code to work, but that app is scheduled to be replaced and I would rather spend time working on the replacement app...

Any ideas on how to get ?f=sitemap to work properly?

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  • By "We recently attached a portal to our esri webserver", do you mean ArcGIS Server got federated with the portal? @ MyEsriUrl/arcgis/rest/services, do you have to log in to see the services? Fact 3 in your submission sounds like a browser cache problem. Is it the same from Incognito window? – Don Jul 19 '17 at 23:56
  • Yes, they were federated. (I didn't do that installation so I had to double check on the terms in order to answer your question.) I don't have to log into MyEsriUrl/arcgis/rest/services by hand, it's happening automatically via active directory. Good call on #3, I now get data. I'll check to see if the ?f=json works once admin is taken away once our gis administrator gets in... – david wendelken Jul 20 '17 at 11:58
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Tested this today. If ArcGIS Server is Federated with Portal and there's no service Shared with "EVERYONE", services?f=sitemap will list no services because they are locked down. Federating ArcGIS Server with Portal hands over the security of ArcGIS Server to Portal. So, to get f=sitemap to list the services, they need to be shared with "EVERYONE".

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  • Beat me to it! I just found a reference in some docs that said this is the intended behavior. However, the ?f=json still appears to work even without admin privs, so I can get the same info with recursive calls to the webserver. Don't know what they were thinking... – david wendelken Jul 20 '17 at 13:54
  • Good to see all is well now! – Don Jul 20 '17 at 15:22
  • I've rewritten my code to make multiple calls to the server and it's slow as all get out. Yuck! So, I'm going to create a service acct with GIS admin privs and create a web service to wrap the call to the ?f=sitemap option. That way, the web service will ask as an admin and pass the data I need back much faster. For gis websites that aren't "ours" (so we don't have admin access), we'll use the new code I've written. . – david wendelken Jul 21 '17 at 13:19

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