Setup My Site Host on a hosted-name site - SharePoint 2013

Question

Is there any way to setup the My Site Host on a hosted-name site in Sharepoint 2013? I am able to create a My Shit Host site using New-SPSite, but when I try to enable Self Service Site create on the web application I get "Cannot enable site creation because there is no site collection at "/" on the Web application."

To make it clear...I'm trying to only use hosted-name sites so after installing SP 2013 I ran the following:

New-SPWebApplication -Name 'X Sites' -hostHeader 'webapp.xxx.com' -port 80 -ApplicationPool XXXAppPool -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount 'corp\john') -AuthenticationProvider (New-SPAuthenticationProvider -UseWindowsIntegratedAuthentication)

Then made several site collections with:

New-SPSite 'http://NewSiteCollection.xxx.com' -HostHeaderWebApplication 'http://webapp.xxx.com' -Name 'A New Site' -Description 'My Site' -OwnerAlias 'corp\john' -language 1033 -Template 'STS#0'

Answer 1

Got the same issue but after reading lots of blog's and read carefully this TechNet article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx), I finally find the way to create the Root ("/") site collection using HNSC and get MySites functional.

Kindling use the following PowerShell commands :

• First create a root site collection

New-SPSite 'http: //servername' -Name 'Root' -Description 'Root site collection (empty site template)' -OwnerAlias 'account' -language 1033 -Template 'STS#1' -ContentDatabase 'WSS_Content_Rootdb'

Note that the root site collection must have the WebApplication URL's as name.

• Then create a MySites site collection using template 'SPSRSITEHOST#0' (and dedicated content database)

New-SPSite 'http: //mysites.your-company.xy' -hostheader 'http: //servername' -Name 'MySites' -Description 'MySites Site Collection' -OwnerAlias 'account' -Language 1033 -Template 'SPSRSITEHOST#0' -ContentDatabase 'WSS-Content_MySites'

• Finally set a Managed Path

New-ManagedPath 'my' -Hostheader

After all is done, go through the standard process to configure MySites functionnality on User Profile Service.

By doing all this, you'll be able to get MySites functionnality functional using Host-named site collection.

http: //mysites.your-company.xy/my/user-login