Creating site collection in claims enabled webapplication with each in seperate content database

Question

Hi All,
We have a  requirement where end user have a option to create site collection with out contacting farm admin, and each site collection would be created in separate content db.
we used WebApplication.sites.add() which is working only for classic authentication web applications.
how do we create site collections in claims enable web application with each site in separate content db?
Any thoughts on this would be helpful.
ragava_28

Answer 1

Hi,
We can use Self Service Site Creation to achieve your requirement.
The code snippet below for your reference:
using (var site = rootSite.SelfServiceCreateSite(siteCollectionUrl, title, description, locale, null, adminLogin, adminName, adminEmail, secondaryAdminLogin, secondaryAdminName, secondaryAdminEmail))
var web = site.RootWeb;
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
//Activate web template feature
site.Features.Add(webTemplateFeatureGuid);
//Apply web Template
using (var s = new SPSite(site.ID))
var webTemplates = s.RootWeb.GetAvailableWebTemplates(locale);
var webTemplateId = "{" + webTemplateFeatureGuid.ToString() + "}#" + webTemplateName;
var webTemplate = webTemplates[webTemplateId];
if (webTemplate != null)
web.ApplyWebTemplate(webTemplate);
// need to reload web. Features in webtemplate have modified it!
web = site.OpenWeb(web.ServerRelativeUrl);
// Continue doing stuff to new site
Here is a similar thread for your reference:
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/26303/unable-to-create-site-collection-programmatically
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support