SharePoint 2010 Surface Content on Port 80

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SharePoint newbiew question, I have installed SharePoint 2010 and want to be able to browse something on port 80. When SP configured it's self it only created 'http://spimage:32001/' 32001, so I manually created one on Port 80 (SharePoint - 80 'http://spimage/' 80) from Central Admin but when I browse to this I just get a 404.

I created a site collection thinking it would reside under port 80 to put something on it. (http://spimage/sites/SPFWebApp/Pages/default.aspx), I can browse this site fine.

My ultimate goal is to be able to browse port 80 and show something surfaced on SharePoint (Hello World for want of a better word), does anyone know how I achieve such an easy task :)

I would like to be able to display my Site Collection but it doesn't have to be that.

Cheers

p.s. if I go to IIS and browse SharePoint - 80 I get nothing.

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SO is for programming related questions not power user questions. Try sharepoint.stackexchange.com – Dennis G
Well I'm a programmer and view this as a development related question, could be wrong...Developers do setup and need to know what they are doing? Take your point on SE... – user728584

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You have some things mixed up here when you are trying to have another URL/Port for a site collection which is not possible.

SharePoint is based on Web Applications - one SharePoint WebApp can be multiple IIS Web Applications. When you create a new Web Application via Central Administration > Application Management > New you can specify the port and host header the site should listen to.

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SharePoint also creates the "IIS web site" or IIS web application for you with the name "SharePoint - 80" in this case. enter image description here

But when I now try to browse this new page I get this: enter image description here

Why is that?. Right now my server doesn't know how to handle "mynewsharepoint.local". So either I add a DNS entry for that or I go the easy route and add an entry to the hosts file (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc):

127.0.0.1 mynewsharepoint.local

I now get a 404: enter image description here

Why? There is no site collection in my newly created web application. So i go ahead and create a site collection at http://mynewsharepoint.local/: enter image description here

And voilá it works: enter image description here

Summary:

  • Check that you have your custom host header routed in the hosts file
  • Make sure you have a site collection within your web application
  • Check in IIS that the "default web site" on port 80 is stopped