Your personal site cannot be created because Self-Service Site Creation is not enabled. Contact your site administrator for more information.

I have installed MOSS 2007 enterprise in a simple-server farm mode using a SQL 2005 backend.

It appears I have everything else working except the My Site functionality.

When I click on My Site, I get:

Your personal site cannot be created because Self-Service Site Creation is not enabled. Contact your site administrator for more information.

So then I enable Self-Service Site Creation for the web app that is hosting the My Site service and try again. This time I receive:

There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information.

After doing some troubleshooting, i came to know about the exact resolution.

Please refer the following steps regarding the same:

Resolution:

Just follow the below steps to add "Personal" path as "Managed Path".

1. Go to "Central admin"

2. Select "Application Management" and select the specific "Web Application".

3. Type the 'MySite Host' URL. (I have created new site collection for MySite. So, I have added 'sites/mysite/personal').

4. Click OK.
Thats it...