In SharePoint, a web application is a site in IIS. It is where an administrator defines what the root URL of the site will be, type of authentication that will be used, and other site-wide settings.
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Programmatically get port 80 Web Application Default URL for Farm?
How would I programmatically get the port 80 Web Application Default URL for the Farm?
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How to remove the Central Admin web app?
How to remove the Central Admin web app from IIS?
I am using SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2012.
I know I can remove an app with the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by issuing:
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Application pool not visible in IIS, SharePoint or PowerShell
I have a PowerShell script that creates a web application using New-SPWebApplication. It crashed for some reason a while back and now it keeps telling me the application pool exists. I've looked in ...
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Root Site on New Web Application Can't be browsed to
Testing box is SharePoint 2010 Standard, single box install, local SQL. Default Web Application works fine. I've created a new web app, create a root site collection for it and no joy. I've tried / ...
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SP2010 Default Application not available after new Web Application was made / deleted
I have a SharePoint 2010 test environment was working perfectly with it's default Web Application and root site. This is a single server install, with its own local copy of SQL.
I've made and ...
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Enumerate every solution for each WebApplication
I'm performing an inventory and I need to get list of sharepoint solutions (*.wsp) deployed to every individual web-application and ideally, it would also be great to list what Application pool on ...
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How to place My Sites inside another site's URL but still keep them logically isolated?
I'm setting up SharePoint 2013 as a company intranet site, and we want to implement My Sites; I know the best practices call for placing them in their own web application and content DB, but we'd ...
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Web Page Security Validation (Taxonomy AJAX Bug vs Silverlight Bug)
The situation began like this:
We upgraded our SharePoint 2010 (using the Project Server 2010 February 2013 Cumulative Update)
We found a bug where on the 'Project Page' layout the 'Managed ...
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SP 2013 - App handling events
I have developed a Sharepoint-Hosted App in SP 2013.
I am trying to write the App related events which handles the below events:
• Handle App Installed
• Handle App Uninstalling
• Handle App ...
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Creating SPSiteCollection, top level site programmatically
I have been given a task to create an event that dynamically creates new site collections on our sharepoint webApp. Thing is using Central Admin I can create "http://testsite.com/sites/newSite_1" and ...
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Fails to create publishing site collection in scripted web application
I have a problem on my SharePoint 2013 farm. I have a script to create web applications in my farm, but when I do I cant create publishing site collections within that web application.
So, the ...
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App issue with SharePoint 2013 Developer Site
In SharePoint 2013 Developer Site:
I am installing an app to my site and it worked fine with default stuff. I added some custom .js file in this app which will set the master page of site coll and ...
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Authentication problem in SP web application 2010
I have created a web application and then site collection by using my custom template site definition. Its created successfully. But when I access my application I get authentication dialog box for ...
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Web Application/Site collection can't displaying Problem
I created a new web application.
I try to restore a site collection from a backup. It finished succesfully but when I type the url This page can't be displayed occurs.
I think the problem is about ...
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how to install app in sharepoint 2013 Publishing site?
I am trying to create one App for sharepoint 2013 publishing site. I can not see Apps catalog from where I can upload an app to the publishing site. On the other hand, if I see in developer site, I ...
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Access denied after creating site collection by using Powershell
I am using SP2013 single server dev environment. I use following scripts for creating web application and site collection. but when I browse to it, it says this site has not been shared with you. I am ...
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Error on recreating web application
I've written a powershell script to create a web application, add libraries and pages, etc. As I work through the script and fix bugs and issues, I delete the web application through central ...
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Is it possible to restrict web application per WFE?
We have 2 web front ends in our single sharepoint 2010 Farm named WFE1 and WFE2. We create 2 web applications, one for my Intranet and one for extranet solution. Is it possible to force our intranet ...
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Powershell to set a Web Application's Trusted Identity Provider to an STS and NTLM?
I've created a custom STS and have setup trust with SharePoint via New-SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. I can use Central Admin to configure a Web Application to use both NTLM and the STS, however I ...
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creating web application in sharepoint 2013
I have created a web application in sharepoint 2013 using central admin, that is successfully created. its successfully created app pool in IIS as well. In host file I have also added entry like this: ...
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When should we separate a site collection into a different web application
we are planning a sharepoint topology and wondering if we should separate each department in a different web application or just a dedicated site collection.
What's the guide or best practice to ...
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Kerberos Authentication - Read data between web applications
I have two web applications running on separate application pool accounts. I have a user control on the first web application that should read data from the second web app. I have verified that ...
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HTTPModule Init method calling multiple times in sharepoint
I want to execute a piece of code on application start. As application_start not available in share point, so i have written my own custom HTTPModule and in Init method i have written the code. But ...
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Backup > Restore to New Farm > My site does not resolve
I have a Dev farm and I restored (SP restore) my site web application. After this, I went to use profile service and reconfigured "My site host". When I type the dev url for mysite it does not ...
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Userlanguage lost when he changes the SiteCollection/WebApplication
We have two SiteCollections (SiteCollA, SiteCollB) which are in English and have german set as an alternative language.
When a user changes the language on SiteCollA to german and then clicks on a ...
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new web app on 1 of 2 wfe servers
I have two WFE servers. By default the CA web app gets installed to only one WFE. Is it possible to create a new web app that only gets installed to one WFE?
If not, does it make sense to create the ...
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Store cross site collection data
Is there a way to store data (strings, maybe xml) in SharePoint that can be accessible to all the site collections in a web application?
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Can't find WebApplication scoped feature
I've deployed a wsp that has 2 features. The one scoped at a web level is listed where I'd expect to see it and activates without a problem. The feature scoped at a web application can't be found ...
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Sharepoint https and host header
Not a long time ago I was requested to create a new sharepoint web app to host our new portal. Because this portal would be (at the time) our only web app running in this farm and because the boss ...
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How to get all SharePoint Web Applications in the Central Administration Page from code behind
How can I have the list of all existing SharePoint Web Applications and their site collections from code behind .
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Find all workflows with a certain permission setting
I have a workflow which just got broken by a network administrator changing some active directory settings for a certain group. I was able to fix the workflow once the problem had been found but there ...
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Error while attaching content db to a different server
I got back up of content db from a demo server and trying to attach it to a newly created web application in my personal copy of same demo server but not up to date. however I am getting this error,
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Moving a Web Application from One server farm to another server farm
We have a Virtual Machine "vDemo" which is acting like our development server, then me as a developer has a copy of it on my PC, however my copy is very old and development server does have other ...
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Host-Named Site Collections configuration
I am configuring SharePoint Server 2013 for Host-Named Site Collections & creating Initial Site Collections.
Created a new Web Application to handle Host-Named Site Collections (HNSC):
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Extranet / Intranet - Site Collection or Web application
I'm new to SharePoint and I have a question. If you already have an existing intranet or extranet infrastructure and you want to create(/expose) another one, should I create a new site collection, a ...
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Content Database Is Not Listing In SQL Management Studio
I have created a new SP web application and the content database name which I have given is WSS_Content_Test. Application created successfully(I checked out and found IIS Website and App pool is ...
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How to resgister a global.asax into a sharepoint Site?
I'm trying add a .asax file into a sharepoint site.
I've been following this tutorial: http://spboom.com/sharepoint-development/using-global-asax-with-sharepoint/
It's quite simple but I' m new on ...
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Remove site prefix when creating new site collection
Can I remove the site prefix from the URL when I create a new site collection? For example if the URL of the web application is http://servername and I want to create a new site collection I need to ...
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whats the difference between IIS web application and SharePoint web application
I have been working on SharePoint for a long time but still confused with the concept of webapplications in SharePoint and IIS, I would also like to know the relationship between them.
I just studied ...
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HTTP-500 after creating new web applications
When I create a new web application, all existing web applications stop responding. They start giving HTTP-500 errors but I can't see a single entry in ULS logs about the error. So I can't know where ...
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Deploying to style library / site pages from a web application scoped feature
I am writing a web application-scoped feature which will provision a site collection and a small number of sites.
The problem is that I have my own style files (.js, .css, images) and even some ...
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Best way to force traffic to Web Front End?
I have a SP 2010 farm with a 3-tier structure consisting of 1 DB server, 1 App Server and 1 Web Front End. When I create a Web New Web Application called "Search_WebApp", I notice that it creates the ...
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Web Application running on both App server and WFE
I am having an issue with Workflow "Pause for" action where this action never fires. I read this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2674684 and it talks about the disabling Workflow server for ...
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How to programmatically determine if anonymous access is enabled for a SharePoint 2010 Web Application using C#?
In Central Administration\Manage Web Applications, there is the ability to enable anonymous access on a web application through the authentication providers. Is there a way to programmatically ...
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How to Restore Same Site Backup in Same Content DB to create another site collection in the same web application?
I have a site backup and i want to create two site collection from that backup in one web application.when i try to restore second site collection on same web application it restrict me to do so.As ...
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Deploy folder/files to Web Application Root
How to deploy folder to a SharePoint 2010 Web Application Root folder (inside inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80) in the solution package(wsp)?
Which kind of item I should use in the visual ...
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All timer jobs are missing from a Web Application
A timer job solution has been written and installed to our farm. It appeared to install correctly.
However when you go to Central Admin under timer jobs and look at ...
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Safely return all lists in site collection that match criteria
I'm using the following code to get all "Announcement" lists in a Web Applications site collection.
Unfortunately, sometimes the current user does not have permission to that site and the page fails ...
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How can I view the definition of a Web Application?
I'm hoping this isn't too stupid, but I'm trying to set up a basic Web Application in Server 2010 and want to crib settings from another environment to make sure I'm configuring everything correctly. ...
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Name cannot begin with semicolon, error while creating sp2010 web application
Was trying to create a new webapplication in sharepoint server 2010. Apparently the web app got created, the content database got created, but at the end got this exception from ULS logs: (Tried both ...
