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Create a Web application for your SharePoint site

On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab on the top navigation bar.

1. In the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Create or extend Web application.
   
2. On the Create or Extend Web Application page, click Create a new Web Application.
   
3. On the Create New Web Application page, in the IIS Web Site section, click Create a new IIS web site, and change the port setting to port 80. This will allow you to access your site by typing http://ServerName. If you use a nonstandard port number you will have to include the port number in the URL to access your site (for example, http://ServerName:port).
   
4. In the Security Configuration section, under Authentication provider, select the appropriate option for your environment, and do not modify any other settings in this section.
   

Note: By default, the authentication provider is set to NTLM.

1. In the Load Balanced URL section, do not modify the default settings.
   
2. In the Application Pool section, select Create new application pool, and use the default settings for the application pool name.
   
3. Click Configurable, and in User name and Password, type the user name and password for the user account under which you want the application pool to run. The user account does not have to be a member of any particular security group. It is recommended that you use the principle of least privilege and select a unique user account that does not have administrative rights on your front-end servers or on your back-end database servers. You can use the user account that you specified as the Office SharePoint Server 2007 service account; however, if that user account is a member of a security group that has administrative rights on your front-end servers or your back-end database servers, you will not be following the principle of least privilege. The user name must be in the format DOMAIN\username.
   
4. In the Database Name and Authentication section, verify the database information and ensure Windows Authentication (recommended)is selected.
   
5. In the Search Server section, do not modify the default settings.
   
6. Click OK.
   
7. On the Application Created page, which appears after successful creation of the Web application, click Create a new Windows SharePoint Services site collection.
   

Create and configure a site

After you configure services in your server farm, you can create a Web application and a site collection. You should create the Web application on the first server on which you installed Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in other words, the same server that is running the SharePoint Central Administration service).