Configure settings for a Web application (Windows SharePoint Services)
Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Topic Last Modified: 2008-01-16
In this article:
General settings
Additional settings
You can configure Web application settings from the Application Management tab on the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.
General settings
To configure any of the following settings, see Configure Web application general settings (Windows SharePoint Services).
After you create a Web application, you can use Central Administration to make changes to the following general Web application settings:
Web Application
Displays the name of the Web Application currently being configured.
Default Time Zone
Specifies the time zone to be used by sites that are created on the selected Web application.
Default Quota Template
Specifies the quota template to be used by default for all sites that are created on the selected Web application.
For information about quota templates, see Create quota templates (Windows SharePoint Services).
Person Name Smart Tag and Presence Settings
Enables online presence information to be displayed next to member names, and the Person Name smart tag to be displayed when users hover over a member name anywhere in the site.
Maximum Upload Size
Specifies the maximum size permitted for a single upload to any site within the Web application. No single file, group of files, or content can be uploaded if the combined size is greater than the size specified.
For information about capacity planning, see Plan for performance and capacity (Windows SharePoint Services).
For information about planning site collection quotas, see Plan for site maintenance and management (Windows SharePoint Services).
Alerts
Specifies whether the Web application will send e-mail alerts to users. By using the Alert Me link, users can choose to be notified when documents, document libraries, list items, or lists are updated.
By using the Maximum number of alerts that a user can create box, you can choose to limit the number of alerts that a user can create. To some extent, by limiting the number of alerts that a user can create, you can control how many alerts are sent by the Web application.
To perform this procedure, see Configure alert settings for a Web application (Windows SharePoint Services).
RSS Settings
Enables server-wide RSS feeds.
Blog API Settings
Specifies whether or not to enable the MetaBlog API for the Web application, and whether or not to use the currently configured authentication method.
Web Page Security Validation
Requires that the security validation expire after a specified length of time.
Send User Name and Password in E-Mail
Enables the Web application to send a user their name and password by e-mail.
Important
If this setting is turned off, a new user cannot access the site until the administrator changes the password for the account, and then notifies the user of the new password.
Backward-Compatible Event Handlers
Enables backward-compatible event handlers.
Important
If this setting is turned off, users cannot bind a document library to a backward-compatible event handler.
Change Log
Specifies how long change log entries are kept. For more information, see Change Log (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=106007&clcid=0x409).
Recycle Bin
Recycle Bin settings are configured at the Web application level, which means you can configure different settings for different Web applications. When you configure the Recycle Bin settings, you affect all sites hosted by the Web application.
By default, the Recycle Bin status is set to On. Site collection administrators can specify the number of days after which items in the Recycle Bin are automatically deleted.
Warning
If you change the Recycle Bin status to Off, all items currently stored in the Recycle Bins for the entire Web application are deleted. Any subsequent items that are deleted are not sent to the Recycle Bin and are permanently deleted.
The second-stage Recycle Bin enables you to specify a percentage of the site collection disk space quota as storage for items that end users have deleted from their Recycle Bin. This enables users to easily restore items that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin.
To perform this procedure, see Configure Recycle Bin settings (Windows SharePoint Services).
Additional Settings
You can use the Application Management tab on the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to configure additional settings for your Web application.
Managed path settings
By defining managed paths, you can specify which paths in the URL namespace of a Web application are used for site collections. You can specify that one site collection or more than one site collection exists at a specified path. For example, an explicit path of "hr" indicates that the URL https://server/hr is a site collection. Similarly, a wildcard path of "sites" indicates that child URLs of https://server/sites/, such as https://server/sites/team, are site collections.
To perform this procedure, see Define managed paths (Windows SharePoint Services).
Self-service site creation
By using the Self-Service Site Management page, you can enable users to create their own top-level Web sites.
To turn on self-service site creation for a particular Web application, you must have created a site collection at the root level of that Web application.
Note
Users can also create subsites of any site for which they have the Create Subsites permission. The Create Subsites permission is included in the Full Control permission level by default, so any user or group that has been granted the Full Control permission level on a particular site can create subsites of that site.
For more information, see Site Creation Worksheet (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73138&clcid=0x409).
To perform this procedure, see Configure self-service site creation (Windows SharePoint Services).
For information about planning for self-service site management, see Plan process for creating sites (Windows SharePoint Services).