SharePoint 2013 Installation

Please watch this video it will helpful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-V4s7lxP0U

After installing the operating system & database server we can continue with the actual SharePoint 2013 Installation. Run the setup.bat from the extracted files root folder.

Install software pre-requisites

Click on the Install software prerequisites link to automatically install all the pre required software.

After the above step you can proceed with the actual installation.

Choose the installation as Standalone and click the Install Now button as shown below.

Wait for a few minutes for the installation to be completed.

Once the installation is completed you will be launched with the Products Configuration Wizard.

Specify your database name and credentials in the following page:

Enter the Farm Security Phrase of your own:

Wait for the configuration activities to be completed. This should take around 10 minutes.

Once the Configuration is done you will get the following message. The textboxes shows your appropriate machine parameters.

Central Administration

Following is the screen shot of Central Administration in SharePoint 2013. You can open this from the Start Menu.

Click on the Start the Wizard button as shown above to configure your farm settings. Once the farm configuration is done you should be able to see the following screen.

Default Site

Now you can try opening the default site installed. It should be accessible by the machine name itself as shown below:

• http://localhost
• http://machinename

Following is the blank site template of the default site.

Corrupted Default Site

If you get a time out error or a Connection Close message then probably the default site collection is corrupted. You can do the following activities to fix it:

1. Delete the port 80 site from Central Administration
2. Create a new web application with port 80
3. Add a new site collection to the new web application
4. Try accessing the site using the above URLs

Ensure that you have valid entries in the system32\drivers\etc\hosts file