No intropage in a Managed Windows Service

Question

I have to do some maintenance on a WCF service that is hosted in a managed windows service.

In the old deployed version I can enter: http://localhost:9091. It shows a page with info about the hosted WCF service (with a C# and VB example).

When I get the sources from TFS and reinstall with the MSI, the same http://localhost:9091 gives a 404.

What could be wrong ?

Answer 1

Perhaps that port is meant to be the port of the ASP.NET Development Server. Is the service started? Open the solution in Visual Studio, right-click the service and choose "View in browser". That will have the side-effect of starting the service.

Answer 2

Could be lots of things. Try these for a start:

• Installed msi on wrong port
• web site / app pool not runnig
• the configuration in web.config does not match the new location
• Web site not marked as asp.net 2.0
• IIS not configured to recognise svc files

The last 3 are the most probable. Check the event log for more details.

Here are a few more based on the comment:

• is the service started
• is the port blocked on the new machine
• the configuration in web.config does not match the new location