Starting a ASP.NET restful webservice on IIS

Question

I have developed a restful web service using ASP.NET, and while using the Visual Studio environment, it worked like a charm with IIS Express. The service itself is a complementary feature and will have to run on every machine on which our product is installed.

I have therefore created a new directory webservice, which holds the web.config and the Global.asax file, as well as a directory bin, which holds the RestulWebservice.dll file.

I then have setup a new web page on the IIS, rooting at C:\inetpub\wwwroot. The web page itself is hosting a web application, based in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\RestfulWebservice (which holds the files described above).

However, if I startup the IIS and visit http://localhost:80/RestfulWebservice, all I am getting is an error 403.14, stating that I may not inspect the contents of this folder unless I allow IIS to do so. If I choose to allow this, I am simply presented with the contents of the folder, not the service itself.

If I try to access a resource of the restful web service directly (i.e. http://localhost:80/RestfulWebservice/Home, I get a direct 404.0 error, telling me that the resource does not exist)

What am I doing wrong here, it can impossibly be this hard to get a compiled library ASP.NET web service to run on the IIS, it works like a charm on IIS express.

Answer 1

c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i