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How to create Web Application in SharePoint

How to create Web Application in SharePoint

Description Hi,Today  am going to explain How to create web application in SharePoint , before going to create we have to know about  the Sites hierarchy. Based on the SharePoint hierarchy above figure we will perform the tasks: 1) Server Farm 2) Web Application 3) Site Collections 4) Sites 5) Lists, Library..etc Step 1: Let’s start by navigation to the SharePoint Central Administration.here we will find under Application Management, Click on Mange web application link Button This page you can see which are already running web applications,now we have to create new web application then Click on New Button. Then it will take few seconds like Bellow window   Step 2:
  • A pop-up window open for creating web application will appear Specify a port number.
  • By default Allow Anonymous  selected No, if you your web application Anonymous site click yes.
  • Select the authentication mode. By default, it will be Claims based authentication.
  • We can change the content database name for easily identifying the database for your web application (eg: WSS_CONTENT_PortNumber).
  • Click on OK button to start creating the web application
Step 3: After Click ok Button It will take few Seconds to create web application Step 4: Once the web application is created, the following pop-up will come and  here will be provide  to create a site Collection. Without Creating Site collection  we can not open that site URL, if we are trying to open without creating site collection we might face this problem.   Please find second part of the article How to create a site collection in SharePoint 2013