What is Managed Path in SharePoint
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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