title: ESRI/ArcGIS: "Error: Services Directory has been disabled."
body: <h1><em>&quot;Error: Services Directory has been disabled.&quot; (Error: 403)</em></h1>
  <p>Hi,</p>
  <p>I'm a first-time user of ESRI/ArcGIS API's. I've set up an account...etc... and have a Node server which gets an ESRI token and makes a request to an ESRI/ArcGIS services endpoint -- the VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem) service.</p>
  <p><strong>I simply want to 'Enable' the &quot;Services Directory&quot; ... or whatever the language is in this case</strong>.</p>
  <p>I'm not trying to do anything advanced, just touch the service to get acquainted with the input &amp; output -- very <s>simple</s> <s>straight-forward</s> basic stuff.</p>
  <p>However, when I attempt this request, the response body is an HTML string (<code>200/ok</code>): <code>&lt;b&gt;Error: Services Directory has been disabled.&lt;/b&gt;</code> I've searched (a lot) for a resolution, including from the following page:</p>
  <p><a href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/rest/apiref/admin.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/rest/apiref/admin.html</a></p>
  <p>Ironically enough (or maybe too much), I don't find anything on ESRI/ArcGIS -- OR -- even Stackoverflow about this matter -- even though it seems to be the first barrier to entry in using these services.</p>
  <p>Take a look at the link above, if you will, and hopefully you can enlighten me on what its explaining -- namely, the <code>http://&lt;host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;/&lt;instance&gt;/admin</code> URI schema. It <em>seems</em> that I may need to host/install an Admin/Management server somewhere (?). I'm using my <code>localhost</code> (signed up for Free / Developer Package) right now -- do I need to deploy before I can install/config something? Is there a &quot;<em>Enable Service 'X'</em>&quot; in the ESRI Online portal / myesri?</p>