The request for security token could not be satisfied because authentication failed.

Question

This is a bit different than other questions I've found on SO regarding this issue...

We're running 2 websites, one a WCF service and the other is a client to the service. Whenever we try to access the service we get the message "The request for security token could not be satisfied because authentication failed."

Both the websites are hosted on the same machine and under the same App Pool. Both websites are hosted on port 80 and have different host headers... example: client.website.com and service.website.com

We're using wsHttpBinding on the service side:

        <endpoint address="http://service.website.com/MessagingService.svc/wshttp"
            binding="wsHttpBinding"
            contract="WebServices.IMessagingService"
   bindingNamespace="CNI/CNIMessenger"
            bindingConfiguration="wsHttpBindingConfig"
   name="wsHttpBinding">
        </endpoint>

When we try to run the service we get the above mentioned error. After hours of debugging I was able to find that if I use a service configuration address without any url only wshttp and point my client to the IP Address/Port everything works fine. for example:

<endpoint address="wshttp"
... And client address points to: http://127.0.0.1:8888/MessagingService.svc/wshttp

When I change the address and website to use service.website.com and keep the port 8888 I continue to get the same error.

Does anyone have any insight on this? MANY Thanks!

Answer 1

Try adding the following to your configuration:

    <host>
      <baseAddresses>
        <add baseAddress="http://service.website.com"/&gt;
      </baseAddresses>
    </host>

keep the address as wshttp