Programmatically provision hostheader site collection (MOSS/Sharepoint 2007)

ketaanhs — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:09:00 GMT

I was looking for a sample on creating a Host header based site collection (programmatically) i.e. using WSS/Sharepoint 2007 API and came across the msdn article, but there is no sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479602.aspx

We can easily do it thru STSADM:

stsadm -o createsite -url http://THE-HOST-HEADER-FOR-THE-SITE-COLLECTION -ownerlogin DOMAIN\username -owneremail username@domain.com -hhurl http://THE-URL-OF-THE-WEBAPPLICATION-THE-SITE-COLLECTION-IS-GOING-INTO

But then I got the sample, thanks again to TROY STARR he is a great help, thought of sharing this with a larger community in case if someone wants to do it:

SPWebApplication webApp = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://the-url-of-the-webapplication-the-site-collection-is-going-into"));

webApp.Sites.Add(

"http://the-host-header-for-the-site-collection", // site URL

"The Site Title", // site title

"The Site Description", // site description

1033, // site LCID that represents the language, e.g. 1033 = en-US

"STS#0", // site template, e.g. STS#0 = Team Site

@"DOMAIN\username", // site owner login

"Firstname Lastname", // site owner name

"username@domain.com", // site owner e-mail address

NULL, // secondary owner login

NULL, // secondary owner name

NULL, // secondary owner e-mail address

true); // is this a host-named site collection

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Programmatically provision hostheader site collection (MOSS/Sharepoint 2007)