This article shows how to create a site collection for existing web applications in SharePoint Central Administration 2013.

Step 1

Click the Start menu, then click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products and click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.

Step 2

The following Central Administration page will appear.

Central Administration

Step 3

Click Application Management in the left navigation. The following screen will appear.

Application Management

Step 4

Click Create Site collections under the Site Collections menu. The following screen will appear.

Click Create Site collections

Step 5

If you want to, you can change your web application as in the following way.

change your web application

Step 6

Enter the Site collection Name in the Title text box.

create site collection

Step 7

Select your template selection by the following. Here I selected the Team Site template.

Select your template

Step 8

Provide a Primary Site Collection Administrator. If you need a Secondary Site Collection Administrator then enter the user name in the Secondary Site Collection Administrator User Name textbox. And finally click the OK button.

Secondary Site Collection Administrator

Step 9

Finally the new top level site is created successfully. Click the URL and then the site collection you just created will appear.

site created successfully

Summary

In this article we explored how to create a site collection for an existing web application in SharePoint Central Administration 2013.