Implement: Creating the managed paths

Alright, we're right where want to…create our site collections,…but wait, we have one more step to do.…That is the whole secret sauce of our…taking advantage of friendly URLs,…we need to create our managed paths.…We create our managed paths at the…web application level.…So, to get there, in central administration,…so if I'm on the homepage of central administation,…I would click 'manage web applications,'…and then I would--…what I'd want to do is find the web application…that I was trying to manage its managed paths for.…Say that seven times fast.…

I'm looking here at SharePoint dot local,…so I highlight it in this ribbon area…and then I click, no surprise,…managed paths.…Here, when I created the web application,…I can see that SharePoint automatically…gave me two managed paths.…One is the root, the forward slash,…if you type a URL into a browser,…it will automatically append what you type in…with a forward slash,…so if you type interfacett.com, it will…actually put in interfacett.com, forward slash.…That forward slash, outside of SharePoint,…