Unable to host web service in IIS

Question

I've been working on a webservice, and testing it by viewing it in a browser directly from VS2012, but now I need to host it in IIS, and for some reason, it simply will not work.

I've tried publishing it as a new web application under my local IIS. It shows up as it should, but when I switch to Content View in IIS, right-click the MyService.svc file, and choose "browse", all I get is a new web-browser window saying the site was not found.

To check if the problem was relating to something in my service, or was general, I tried creating a new test-service from a VS project template (a new WCF Service Application), which i compiled, ran in my browser nicely, then tried to publish to IIS, with the same result.

A little extra info:

• I'm working on 64-bit windows 8
• Both projects are in .Net 4.0
• My configuration has Platform Target set to Any CPU
• In IIS, the services use the DefaultAppPool with default settings

I've been able to publish a website in IIS recently, and it works fine - I really thought the process was supposed to be just about the same for a service, but apparently I'm missing something.

Update: A little extra info in response to comments below:

• I'm currently trying to view the service locally
• There is no .asmx file, only a .svc file, a web.config, and a bin/ folder in the folder where the service is published.
• I do have a site running under the same IIS website ("Default Web Site"), and that works fine.

Any tips as to what I can try in order to resolve this will be greatly appreciated....

Answer 1

For the record, this was what solved the problem for me: