WCF ServiceHost access rights

Question

I get the following error when going through the WCF tutorial.

HTTP could not register URL http://+:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details).

Is this something caused by a restriction on Windows 7?

Answer 1

Are you trying to use port 8000? Are you trying to use a host named "+"?

Answer 2

The issue is that the URL is being blocked from being created by Windows.

Steps to fix: Run command prompt as an administrator. Add the URL to the ACL

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service user=mylocaluser

Answer 3

If your running via the IDE, running as administrator should help. To do this locate the Visual Studio 2008/10 application icon, right click it and select "Run as administrator"