How to create a Web Application with Classic Authentication in SharePoint 2013

As we all SharePoint developer knows, Microsoft didn’t provide a UI interface to create a Classic Authentication Web Application in SharePoint 2013.

But you can create a Classic Authentication Web Application by using powershell command, mostly this kind of practices are used during the migration of SharePoint from old version to SharePoint 2013.

Using Powershell Command

New-SPWebApplication -Name “SharePoint – 80” -ApplicationPool “SharePoint – 80” -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “Contoso\SPAdmin”) -DatabaseName “WSS_Content” -Port 80 -URL http://myportal/