Create a new web application (Access Denied for path 80)

Question

I got the following error while creating a new SharePoint web application on port 80:

Sorry, something went wrong Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80' is denied.

creating a new SharePoint web application on others ports is working fine.

I am using farm account in SharePoint 2016

Answer 1

When you create a new Web Application you have to add host header name to your webapp. This means that your Web App with the host header name "portal" will have the path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\portal80, and another web app with host header name "test" will have the path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\test80. That way you can use more than one web app running on port 80 since they have different folders in IIS.

Answer 2

Access denied means that their already web application created on that port. So you can't have two web application on single port without hostheaders.

• delete the old web app created on port 80 and make sure no virtual directory exist after deleting on that path.now create new web app.
• use the host headers( either FQDN or using host file entries) to create multiple web applications on port 80
• or you can create web applications on different ports without host headers.