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OhLongJohnJohnson
OhLongJohnJohnson

Reputation: 181

Host WCF in IIS

Hello all you smart people.

So, I've dared to make myself a WCF-service. It works as is should, when i run it in the WCF testing utility.

But with the next step I've run into some troubles. Hosting the WCF-service in IIS.

As said, the service works with the test utility.

My solution:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21380898/RealKursusSolution.PNG

For hosting my service in IIS i created a folder called "HostIISTcp" as you can see in the solution, where i added my dll's and my pdb's under the "bin" folder. As i can understand, IIS cannot operate with an app.config file so i created a web.config file, where i simply copy/pasted from the app.config file in the class library.

The web.config :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" />
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="MyWCFServices.RealKursusService.KursistService">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="MyWCFServices.RealKursusService.IKursistService">
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost" />
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
        <host>
          <baseAddresses>
            <add baseAddress="http://localhost:8080/MyWCFServices/RealKursusService/KursistService/" />
          </baseAddresses>
        </host>
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior>
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="False" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

I believe that the problem lays with the web.config file, and pardon me for being a newbie at this, but I've been googling like a crazy and i really cant find a proper solution.

To sum up: Am I on the right track? Are there another (better) solution for hosting wcf-services in IIS? And if you could point out if anything is missing in the web.config file it would be great.

I'm using visual studio 2012, IIS 8 .net framework 4.5 and sitting in a leather-chair.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7958

Answers (1)

OhLongJohnJohnson
OhLongJohnJohnson

Reputation: 181

So i figured it out.

By the way, sorry for the vauge question, i was pretty confuesd why my wcf service wouldnt be hosted.

I got the web.config working by with the following steps:

  1. "Add new website" to solution (WCF-Service)
  2. Delete the two servicefiles (Service.cs, IService.cs) because i'v allready my services defined in my other service library.
  3. Add reference to my exsisting service-librarys.

  4. Edit the service.svc file in my newly created website, to point at my exsisting service service

    <%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true"    Service="MyWCFServices.RealKursusService.KursistService" %>

  5. Deleted the whole config in web.config on my new site.

  6. Edit the web.config with "WCF Configuration" tool (right click on the web.config file) when using the WCF configuration tool it's pretty straight forward. Add a service and point it to your reference dll in the bin directory.

Then hosted the svc file in a new application under my default site in iis

Hope this can help someone

Upvotes: 2

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