Thursday 25 September 2008

WCF and IIS 6.0 Hosting Issue

I've developed a WCF Service which I have tested extensively in the Visual Studio environment.  I have had it successfully hosted on Vista and also Windows XP.

Today when I attempted to install the Service on my windows Server 2003 machine, it refused to display the .svc file.  It would only return a 404 error.

After much stuffing around I found this resource which described the same problem I was facing. (Always nice to know you are not alone!)

The only method that worked for me was uninstalling and reinstalling IIS.  I then repaired my .NET 3.5 SP1 installation and Vola! A visible svc and wsdl file!

Wow what a waste of an afternoon that was!

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