Mastering Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

1.11. Managed Paths

When planning for SharePoint it's a good idea to keep in mind how you would like to structure your site collections. Site collections are composed of a top-level site and all the sites that stem from it (called subsites). The top-level site is usually accessed by using the web application's URL and then the path to the top-level site's home page. When creating a site collection, you must decide what its URL path will be. When you create your first site collection in a web application, you can give it the root address for that web application, or you can specify a path. What this means is if you create the first web application on server SP2, then its URL can be http://SP2, using port 80, which is the root address for the ...