My Site creation stuck at “We’re almost ready!” in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint automatically provisions the user’s MySite when he/she goes to it for the first time. On my farm the process got stuck at the “We’re almost ready!” message. The user’s MySite never got created. On fresh deployment of the farm it was working OK though.

I realised that one of the things I did was created a dedicated web app for MySite (according to Microsoft’s recommendation). If I pointed MySite host back to the default web app that was created during farm deployment, then it works with no problems.

After some digging, I found that in addition to creating a root site collection using the My Site Host template and configuring User Profile Service Application, I had to do some other things on the new web app to get everything to work. Here are the complete list of what I did.

Create a new web app
Create a site collection at the root using the My Site Host template
Assuming you want users’ MySites to be created at http://mySiteHost/personal/[John_Smith], create a Managed Path for the web app. The path should be personal, and the type should be Wildcard Inclusion.
In User Profile Service Application, set My Site Host location to http://mySiteHost, and Personal Site Location to personal.
Enable Self-Service Site Creation for the web app

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7 Responses to My Site creation stuck at “We’re almost ready!” in SharePoint 2013

Becky Bertram (@beckybertram) says:

April 25, 2013 at 2:00 am

Thanks! This helped me out.

Rune Mariboe says:

May 31, 2013 at 10:12 pm

Save me as well! Why is this no longer automatically configured? 😦

k says:

September 18, 2013 at 5:43 am

is it possible for you to provide in detail how to do the following which you mentioned as follows
◾Create a new web app
◾Create a site collection at the root using the My Site Host template
◾Assuming you want users’ MySites to be created at http://mySiteHost/personal/%5BJohn_Smith%5D, create a Managed Path for the web app. The path should be personal, and the type should be Wildcard Inclusion.
◾In User Profile Service Application, set My Site Host location to http://mySiteHost, and Personal Site Location to personal.
◾Enable Self-Service Site Creation for the web app
Thanks.

Jason Vickers says:

October 18, 2013 at 10:43 pm

This was very helpful. Thanks for the post.

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gibclassics says:

April 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm

thanks – I had gotten the wrong url n the “Personal Site Location”
just the name of the wildcard enabled folder. ‘my’ or ‘sites’ or ‘personal’ or whatever

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