Create Second Web Application using the Default port 80 In SharePoint2010
- by ybbest
As a SharePoint developer, one of the common tasks is to create SharePoint Web Application. In this post I will show you how to create second Web Application using the default port 80 in SharePoint2010.You need to follow the steps below.
1. Go to Central Admin => Application Management =>Manage web applications and click new Web Application
2. I choose YBBEST as my IIS site name and host header name, change the port number to 80 and leave the rest settings as default.
3. After the web application creation wizard completes, add an entry in the host file located at C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts .
4. Create a root site collection for the new web application. After the site collection is created , you can browse to the site collection using URL http://ybbest.