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Can not access Windchill Help Center in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 01-Aug-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.2 to 13.1

Description

  • Can not access Windchill Help Center 
  • Post Upgrade from Windchill PDMLink 9.1 all users, all browsers are unable to access Windchill Help Center
  • UI Error:
Authentication Required, endless loop as will not authenticate
  • Windchill Help requires credentials
  • Only Windchill Administrators can access Windchill Help
  • Non Administrator users can't access Windchill Help
  • Unable to use / open Windchill Help Center with error:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request
  • Unable to access Windchill Help Center, after migrating users to Active Directory (AD)
  • Can not access Windchill Help Center after installing Help Center in Windchill 12.0.1.0 and above 
  • Error in error.log
    AH01618: user abc not found: /Windchill-WHC/index.html
  • Error in access log
    abc "GET /Windchill-WHC/index.html?id=WHCCategories&locale=en-US HTTP/1.1" 401 381 6004

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