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I bet it's the address - when using Add Service Reference it will hardcode "localhost" into your ClientConfig file on the client.

Check this and implement a way to change over to your real (IIS) address at deploy time.

(A way to check you have the right deploy-time address is to pull it up in a browser, try navigating to "http://yoururl.com/MyService.svc" you should get a page that will link to the WSDL, letting you make sure you have the right address.. this is the address your client should look for)

Bobby 2010-05-17 16:42:38

Check the .ClientConfig file in the project that is consuming the service. If it says localhost in there, then this is the problem

Bobby 2010-05-17 18:29:17

Answer 2

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Couple of things to check:

do you have a SVC file? Where is it located?
do you connect to the correct service address? It would be:
```
http://YourServerName/YourVirtualDirectory/YourServiceFile.svc
```
This is the address that you get when hosting in IIS - you cannot override that in your web.config, no matter how hard you try.
are the configurations for binding etc. identical on server and client?
have you turned on HttpGetEnabled for the service metadata? Can you navigate to the WSDL address and get the WSDL back??
```
http://YourServerName/YourVirtualDirectory/YourServiceFile.svc?wsdl
```

marc_s 2010-05-17 16:47:59

Well, everythign u mentioned is done!1. I have hosted my WCF service in IIS.2. My website is still not hosted, I run it from the Visual Studio, it can communicate with Service. Everything runs alrite3. I move my website to IIS, rest everything same, it communicates with the same WCF service hosted in IIS4. Now when I run my website from IIS, it does not communicate with the service!I'm clueless!

James 2010-05-17 16:58:31

It is now returning an error "System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException The Remote Server returned an error: Not Found"! However, I just tried to find out if the service was running, I printed the Service state and it was Opened, which meant that the service was there and listening! it is only when I call a contract it returns this error!

James 2010-05-17 17:14:36

please see my comment, I'm 99% sure it's the address. Check the .ClientConfig file in the project that is consuming the service. If it says localhost in there, then this is the problem.

Bobby 2010-05-17 18:29:00

Answer 3

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It sounds like you are not resetting the Service reference when you move it to the webserver. What you need to do after you have completed testing is to move your Service to be hosted by IIS, so deploy it to the server. Then you will need to re-reference, or update your reference in our web app before you deploy it.

Typically when testing your service it will run in the dev server at http://localhost:someport/myservice.svc

When you deploy it to IIS it will run on http://myserver.com/PossibleVDIR/myservice.svc

Once you take care of this you should be fine.

John Wiese 2010-05-17 17:19:35

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