Create a Web application that uses Windows-classic authentication (SharePoint Server 2010)

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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

This article describes how to create a Web application that uses Windows-classic authentication.

Tip

If you want to use Windows-claims authentication instead, see Create claims-based web applications in SharePoint 2010.

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

You can create a Web application by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site or Windows PowerShell. You typically use Central Administration to create a Web application. If you want to automate the task of creating a Web application, which is common in enterprises, use Windows PowerShell. After the procedure is complete, you can create one or several site collections on the Web application that you have created.

To create a Web application that uses Windows-classic authentication by using Central Administration

  1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

    • To create a Web application, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group and member of the local Administrator group on the computer running Central Administration.

  2. On the Central Administration Home page, in the Application Management section, click Manage web applications.

  3. On the ribbon, click New.

  4. On the Create New Web Application page, in the Authentication section, click Classic Mode Authentication.

  5. In the IIS Web Site section, you can configure the settings for your new Web application by selecting one of the following two options:

    • Click Use an existing web site, and then select the Web site on which to install your new Web application.

    • Click Create a new IIS web site, and then type the name of the Web site in the Name box.

  6. In the IIS Web Site section, in the Port box, type the port number you want to use to access the Web application. If you are creating a new Web site, this field is populated with a random port number. If you are using an existing Web site, this field is populated with the current port number.

    Note

    The default port number for HTTP access is 80, and the default port number for HTTPS access is 443. If you want users to access the Web application without typing in a port number, they should use the appropriate default port number.

  7. Optional: In the IIS Web Site section, in the Host Header box, type the host name (for example, www.contoso.com) you want to use to access the Web application.

    Note

    In general, this field is not set unless you want to configure two or more IIS Web sites that share the same port number on the same server, and DNS has been configured to route requests to the same server.

  8. In the IIS Web Site section, in the Path box, type the path to the IIS Web site home directory on the server. If you are creating a new Web site, this field is populated with a suggested path. If you are using an existing Web site, this field is populated with the current path of that Web site.

  9. In the Security Configuration section, configure authentication and encryption for your Web application.

    1. In the Authentication Provider section, click Negotiate (Kerberos) or NTLM.

      Note

      To enable Kerberos authentication, you must perform additional configuration. For more information, see Plan for Kerberos authentication (SharePoint Server 2010).

    2. In the Allow Anonymous section, click Yes or No. If you choose to allow anonymous access, this enables anonymous access to the Web site by using the computer-specific anonymous access account (that is, IIS_IUSRS).

      Note

      If you want users to be able to access any site content anonymously, you must enable anonymous access for the entire Web application zone before you enable anonymous access at the SharePoint site level; later, site owners can configure how anonymous access is used within their sites. If you do not enable anonymous access at the Web application level, you cannot enable anonymous access later, at the site level. For more information, see Choose security groups (SharePoint Server 2010).

    3. In the Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) section, click Yes or No. If you choose to enable SSL for the Web site, you must configure SSL by requesting and installing an SSL certificate. For more information about setting up SSL, see How to Setup SSL on IIS 7.0 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=187887).

  10. In the Public URL section, type the URL for the domain name for all sites that users will access in this Web application. This URL will be used as the base URL in links shown on pages within the Web application. The default URL is the current server name and port, and is automatically updated to reflect the current SSL, host header, and port number settings on the page. If you are deploying SharePoint Server 2010 behind a load balancer or proxy server, then this URL may need to be different than the SSL, host header, and port settings on this page.

    The Zone value is automatically set to Default for a new Web application.

    Note

    You can change the zone when you extend a Web application. For more information, see Extend a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010).

  11. In the Application Pool section, do one of the following:

    • Click Use existing application pool, and then select the application pool you want to use from the drop-down menu.

    • Click Create a new application pool, and then type the name of the new application pool or keep the default name.

    For more information, see Logical architecture components (SharePoint Server 2010).

  12. Under Select a security account for this application pool, do one of the following:

    • Click Predefined to use a predefined security account, and then select the security account from the drop-down menu.

    • Click Configurable to specify a new security account to be used for an existing application pool.

    Note

    You can create a new account by clicking the Register new managed account link.

  13. In the Database Name and Authentication section, choose the database server, database name, and authentication method for your new Web application, as described in the following table.

    Item Action

    Database Server

    Type the name of the database server and Microsoft SQL Server instance you want to use in the format <SERVERNAME\instance>. You can also use the default entry.

    Database Name

    Type the name of the database, or use the default entry.

    Database Authentication

    Select the database authentication to use by doing one of the following:

    • If you want to use Windows authentication, leave this option selected. We recommend this option because Windows authentication automatically encrypts the password when it connects to SQL Server.

    • If you want to use SQL authentication, click SQL authentication. In the Account box, type the name of the account you want the Web application to use to authenticate to the SQL Server database, and then type the password in the Password box.

      Note

      SQL authentication sends the SQL authentication password to the SQL Server unencrypted. We recommend that you only use SQL authentication if you force protocol encryption to the SQL Server of encrypt your network traffic by using IPsec.

  14. If you use database mirroring, in the Failover Server section, in the Failover Database Server box, type the name of a specific failover database server that you want to associate with a content database.

  15. In the Service Application Connections section, select the service application connections that will be available to the Web application. In the drop-down menu, click default or custom. You use the custom option to choose the services application connections that you want to use for the Web application.

  16. In the Customer Experience Improvement Program section, click Yes or No.

  17. Click OK to create the new Web application.

To create a Web application that uses Windows-classic authentication by using Windows PowerShell

  1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: See Add-SPShellAdmin. You also need to be a member of the local Administrators group on the computer running Windows PowerShell. In addition, some procedures require membership in the SQL Server fixed server roles dbcreator and securityadmin.

  2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.

  3. Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.

  4. Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.

  5. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command:

    New-SPWebApplication -Name <Name> -ApplicationPool <ApplicationPool> -ApplicationPoolAccount <ApplicationPoolAccount> -Port <Port> -URL <URL>

    Where:

    • <Name> is the name of the new Web application.

    • <ApplicationPool> is the name of the application pool.

    • <ApplicationPoolAccount> is the user account that this application pool will run as.

    • <Port> is the port on which the Web application will be created in IIS.

    • <URL> is the public URL for the Web application.

      Example

      New-SPWebApplication -Name "Contoso Internet Site" -ApplicationPool "ContosoAppPool" -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount "DOMAIN\jdoe") -Port 80 -URL "https://www.contoso.com"

For more information, see New-SPWebApplication.

Note

We recommend that you use Windows PowerShell when performing command-line administrative tasks. The Stsadm command-line tool has been deprecated, but is included to support compatibility with previous product versions.

See Also

Concepts

Extend a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
Create a site collection (SharePoint Server 2010)
Create claims-based web applications in SharePoint 2010

Other Resources

Configure Web Server Security (IIS 7)