Thursday, November 1, 2012

Understanding Sharepoint Managed Paths


When we create Site Collections in Sharepoint web applications, they are created with URL as 

http://servername:port/sites/

To have a specific URL other than /sites we would have to create a Managed Path.

When we create a Managed Path, we have two options:   Explicit Inclusion
                                                                                    Wildcard Inclusion

So what is the difference? I am going to explain you on what is a managed path. Please be my guest ;-)

1) Browse to Central Administration -> Applications Management -> Manage Web Application

2) Choose the web application where you want to implement managed paths.

3) Select Managed Paths from the ribbon




4) I am adding two new paths      - fahadexplicit (for type Explicit inclusion)
                                                 - fahadwildcard (for type Wildcard inclusion)



5) Now browse back to Application Management -> Create Site Collections.

6) You would see your custom Managed paths there.

Explicit Inclusion:

When we are not planning to create further site collections under a specified managed path, then we use this option. Explicit Inclusion Managed paths allows in creation of only one site collection at the exact given URL.
In our case fahadexplicit would be the only site collection that can be created. SharePoint will allow creating only one site collection within this Managed Path.

The URL would be: http://servername:port/fahadexplicit




Wildcard Inclusion:

When we want to create more than one site collection under a specific managed path, we use this option. Wildcard Inclusion Managed Paths allow unlimited site collection to be created under a given URL.
In our case under fahadwildcard, we can create any number of site collections.

The URL of these site collections would be as below:

http://servername:port/fahadwildcard/sitecollection1
http://servername:port/fahadwildcard/sitecollection2
http://servername:port/fahadwildcard/sitecollection3
http://servername:port/fahadwildcard/sitecollection4



and so on.

22 comments:

  1. Nice Post.... Helpfull.... Thanks

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  2. Great explanation. Thank you!

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  3. Very well explained. Two thumbs up!

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  4. Very clear explaination. Thanks.

    Regards,
    Anwarali Hajwane

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  5. Thanks for nice explanation

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  6. Muy clara la explicación gracias!!

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  7. A clear explanation. Such a simple concept now but other explanations made me think there was more to it. Good job.

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  8. Thanxs you!. Cristal clear!
    Regards,
    Florisz

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  9. Well explained. Thanks

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  10. Cool, thanks, you made it very easy to understand

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  11. Nicely and Well Explained! Thank you

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  12. Well explained. Thanks

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  13. Really nice .. Thank you

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  14. very very helpful
    thank u so much

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  15. that's you boy, simply explained, thank you

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  16. Awesomely Explained..Thank You So Much!

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  17. Explained perfectly, thankyou

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