Right way to use managed path in Sharepoint

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UmrF asked Mar 25, '21 UmrF commented Aug 12, '21

Right way to use managed path in Sharepoint

Hello,

I came across a site today that was created at the managed path level, nothing after managed path, for example site URL was like https://www.SharePointWebapplicationname/MP where MP is listed under managed path.
I was surprise to see SharePoint allowed to create a site collection like this but not sure if this is the right way to do it, what could be the side effect of this and what can go wrong?
Any information or help on this , is this is ok to create site collection like this or what are the downsides of this approach or what can go wrong.
Thanks in advance for any input.

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Answer 1 · 2021-03-25T16:24:27.833Z

trevorseward answered Mar 25, '21 UmrF commented Aug 12, '21

SharePoint supports two kind of Managed Paths. There are Wildcards paths, i.e. "/sites/" which form a structure of rootUrl/sites/siteUrl. There are also Explicit inclusions, which is the example you're providing, i.e. rootUrl/siteUrl. There are no downsides of using Explicit MPs, per se, but it does mean that MP cannot be used for other Site Collections, unlike a Wildcard MP.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/define-managed-paths

There is a recommendation to keep the number of Managed Paths per Web Application to an absolute minimum as every request to a Web Application is evaluated against the MPs.

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UmrF · Mar 25, 2021 at 05:10 PM

Thanks Trevor

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