I’m currently going through the TrainSignal Course “SharePoint 2013 Administration” Course by Bill Kulterman. An excellent beginning course in SharePoint Administration.
I’m a developer that beginning to dabble in Administration. I’ve had to setup a few Dev Machines for SP2013.
My specific question concerns Managed Paths and Site Creation. In the course the Main Site is created on it’s own Path: An Explicit Path but not the Root “/” Path.
In my experience, the main sites are created on the root managed path–thus the site collection and main site have the same URL.
In this case “Main” would be the Root Site Collection? Correct? Also another site should not be created at the Managed Path root? Correct? Even though it is available? This would be confusing.
Normally on the machines I’ve used, someone types in the site collection and then it resolves to the site collection plus default.aspx or “Pages/default.aspx” for the root site.
In the case I mentioned, I believe you would need specifically to add the site “Main” to the Site Collection Url? Then it would resolve correct?
thanks,
Stephan Onisick
Hello Stephan,
I am not sure I understand your question, but here are some examples for managed Path.
WebApp : http://web.vlad.local
Root Site Collection = http://web.vlad.local
By default, every WebApp comes with a wildcard managed path called “sites”.
So I could create http://web.vlad.local/sites/team1
I can also create a wildcard managed path called “teams” so it looks better.
http://web.vlad.local/teams/team1
If you want it directly in the URL, create an explicit manged path called “team1”.
In SharePoint 2013 you also have HSNC (Host named Site Collections). For example, in the same WebApp as above, I could create
http://sites.vlad.local or http://teams.vlad.local.
I hope it makes it clear 🙂
