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JMc
JMc

Reputation: 971

How to publish a Web Service from Visual Studio into IIS?

I have written a WCF web service in C#. I had originally self-hosted it and then decided to host it on IIS running locally on my PC. While the service is working, there are several aspects of the deployment process that I don't understand:

Firstly, the URL of this service when hosted in IIS does not correspond to what I specified in my web.config. I had specified "http://localhost:8000/MyServices/OrderService" there and this was used when I self-hosted. Now that I've deployed to IIS, the URL has become "http://localhost/MyServices/OrderService". Why is the URL not picked up from my config file?

Secondly, to host the Web Service, I created a new web site within IIS (in addition to the existing 'Default Web Site'). I set the physical path to c:\inetpub\wwwroot (no idea if this is correct) and left the other parameters as default. I then copied my /bin folder, my .svc file and my web.config to this folder. Is this the equivalent of a 'Virtual Directory'?

Finally, the service didn't work until (within IIS) I selected 'Convert to application'. Why is it necessary to select 'Convert to application'?

Can anyone explain what the correct procedure is to publish a simple web service from Visual Studio into IIS, or point me at some good documentation so I can understand the process?

****EDIT TO ORIGINAL***** Having spent more time looking into this, I have found the following:

You can perform the copy manually to the same affect.

The answer is that the baseAddress is completely ignored when hosting on IIS.

Upvotes: 26

Views: 123005

Answers (1)

Nils Magne Lunde
Nils Magne Lunde

Reputation: 1824

If using Visual Studio 2010 you can right-click on the project for the service, and select properties. Then select the Web tab. Under the Servers section you can configure the URL. There is also a button to create the virtual directory.

Upvotes: 14

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