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SharePoint Services should leave it alone. Included paths can be further categorized
into the following two types:
■ Explicit inclusions. Includes only the specific path that you set. Use explicit
inclusions, for example, if you want Windows SharePoint Services to manage
a specific path (such as /portal) but not any possible sites below it (such as
/portal/webapp).
■ Wildcard inclusions. Includes any sites below the path that you set so that
you don’t have to add them individually. This is the type of inclusion to use for
Self-Service Site Creation, when you want users to be able to create top-level
websites underneath a specific path, such as /sites.
Note Web server performance declines linearly with the number of inclusions
and exclusions. You can minimize the performance impact by using
wildcard inclusions rather than many explicit inclusions, and by putting as
many excluded applications under the same excluded path as possible.
Included and excluded paths are used only for directories, not pages in a website,
and they are recursive. (For example, if you exclude /mango, Windows Share-
Point Services ignores any URL beginning with /mango/ or equal to /mango.)
Exclusions take precedence over inclusions, so if you accidentally set a particular
path to be both included and excluded, the path is excluded. Inclusions are evaluated
by length; longer URLs are checked before shorter URLs, so an inclusion
for http://My_Server/sites/teams is evaluated before an inclusion for http://My_Server
/teams.
You can manage paths by using HTML Administration or the command-line
administration tool. You can use the addpath and deletepath operations to manage
paths on the command line. Both operations take the -url and -type parameters. The
-type parameter has three values: exclusion, explicitinclusion, and wildcardinclusion.
For example, to add a new wildcard inclusion to manage all sites at the top level of
http://My_Server, you would use syntax such as the following:
Stsadm –o addpath –url http://My_Server/ -type wildcardinclusion
You can also remove an included or excluded path by using the command line.
For example, to remove an exclusion for the site at http://server1/hrweb/webapp, you
would use syntax such as the following:
Stsadm –o deletepath –url http://My_Server/hrweb/webapp
Create or Delete a Top-Level Website
You can create a new top-level website or delete an existing top-level website. If you
are an administrator of the server computer, you can also create sites and subsites by