What is Managed Path
Let’s
understand what is path first. In SharePoint you have seen some different types
of site collection urls within same Web Application like :
These
different kind of URL structure called path & you can manage these path as
per you your organization hierarchy or architecture. Some time you required to
create a site collection with name of “Departments” & under this “Department”
you might want to create some departments like HR, IT etc. and you want your
site collection url should be like http://SharePointDemo/Departments/HR.
Managed
path is this. Where you can manage site collection path not whole url. Here you
can Manage Path for the selected Web Application.
In
other words, when you creates your first site collection in Web Application you
have to provide site collection url under section “Web Site Address”. Here you
get options “/”, “/Sites/” and”/My/Personal”, These options are called Managed
Path.
There
are two types of managed path in SharPoint :
Explicit:
When we want only one site collection with a managed path, We use this option. When you create Managed Path with Explicit
option, You can’t add any further url like you want to create a site collection
directly for HR then you have to create a managed path with explicite option.
When you will going to create site collation & selecting managed path from “Web
Site Address”, you will get an additional URL option.
Wildcard
: When we want to create more than one site collection under a specific managed
path, we use this option.
Like we have created managed path Department with Wildcard option. Now I want
to create HR site then my url will be : http://SharePointDemo/Departments/HR
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