Cannot create sharepoint site under web application using central administration

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I am trying to create a new web application and create a site under that. I have created web application and site collection but I cannot add site to site collection. I tried to add but it is adding in web application that is running central administration. Any Ideas? I am using SharepPoint 2010.

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Answer 1

To add a child-site to an existing Site Collection, you don't do that from Central Admin. Log on to the top site of the site-collection, and create your sub-sites from there.