Cannot create sharepoint site under web application using central administration

Question

I am trying to create a new web application and create a site under that. I have created web application and site collection but I cannot add site to site collection. I tried to add but it is adding in web application that is running central administration. Any Ideas? I am using SharepPoint 2010.

Thanks

Answer 1

To add a child-site to an existing Site Collection, you don't do that from Central Admin. Log on to the top site of the site-collection, and create your sub-sites from there.