Question

I am having a frustrating time getting both POST and GET running on my webservice. I need to stop, chill out and figure out what is going wrong.

I broke it down to a very simple method that just takes a string and echos it back. This works on the IIS I have set on my localhost, it works on the production box, but the same configuration is breaking on my test system. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. When accessing:

http://test.softwaredesignexcellence.com/WebPostService/WebPostSvc.svc/json/Test?testtext=test%20me

I am getting a page with a bold header with the text “Service” and the sub header in smaller text stating “Endpoint not found.”.
Why am I getting this message? The same service works on my local host using the query string “http://localhost/Services/WebPostSvc.svc/json/Test?testtext=test%20me”. and I’m getting the response:

<string>Echoing test me</string>

The production server, which I can’t put a link to, since it is internal is giving a slightly different response, but it’s still working fine:

 <string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">Echoing test me</string>

It is frustrating when I publish locally, hit the local web server, everything is working. I copy the published folder to the production server, type in the similar URL on that server, everything is working, then I ftp the same code, and the same settings to my test server, and it is breaking with the error listed above (Endpoint not found.). What am I not understanding that is keeping me from getting a simple service to run on the test server?

The Interface for the web service:

    [ServiceContract( Namespace="http://services.alorica.com/WebPostSvc/1.0" )]
    public interface IWebPostSvc
    {
        [OperationContract]
        [WebGet]
        string Test(string testtext);
    }

This is the simple method I am trying to get working:

    [WebService(Namespace = "http://services.alorica.com/WebPostSvc/1.0")]
    [ServiceBehavior(Namespace = "http://services.alorica.com/WebPostSvc/1.0")]
    public class WebPostSvc : IWebPostSvc
    {
        public string Test(string testtext)
        {
             return String.Format("Echoing {0}", testtext);
        }
    }

My settings are getting unweildy, as I have been fiddling with them trying to get everything working.
UPDATE – I just removed the serviceHostingEnvironment section, it didn’t seem to be necessary, Web Service is still up and working with SOAP, but json is still giving me “Endpoint not found”.

 <system.serviceModel>

    <!-- Set up Custom Behaviors -->
    <behaviors>

      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="jsonBehavior">
          <webHttp/>

        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>


      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="SvcMetaBehavior" >
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>

    </behaviors>


    <!-- Set up the binding configuration  -->
    <bindings>

      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="SOAPBinding">
          <security mode="None">

          </security>
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>

      <webHttpBinding>
        <binding name="JSONBinding"
                 hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                 receiveTimeout="00:10:00"
                 sendTimeout="00:10:00"
                 openTimeout="00:10:00"
                 closeTimeout="00:10:00"
                 maxReceivedMessageSize="1000000"
                 maxBufferPoolSize="2000000"
                 bypassProxyOnLocal="false"
                 useDefaultWebProxy="true" >
          <security mode="None">

          </security>
        </binding>
      </webHttpBinding>


    </bindings>

    <services>

      <!-- -->
      <service  behaviorConfiguration="SvcMetaBehavior"
               name="WebPostService.WebPostSvc"
      >

        <endpoint address="soap"
                  binding="basicHttpBinding"
                  bindingConfiguration="SOAPBinding"
                  contract="WebPostService.IWebPostSvc"
        />

        <endpoint address="json"
                  binding="webHttpBinding"
                  bindingConfiguration="JSONBinding"
                  behaviorConfiguration="jsonBehavior"
                  contract="WebPostService.IWebPostSvc"

        />

        <endpoint contract="IMetadataExchange" binding="mexHttpBinding" address="mex" />

      </service>

    </services>

  </system.serviceModel>

Answer 1

Thank you, those that answered so quickly. I found my particular issue, it wasn’t in the configuration as I had thought.

The server I was publishing to did not have .NET 3.5 installed, which is fine, because .NET 2.0 will suffice, but it was missing assemblies. I don’t know why I didn’t get a better error message, but the solution was to look through my references, and switch them to “Copy Local” and do a republish, after which everything was working on that server. I did the “Copy Local” on all the references out of frustration, but I’m sure I only needed to do this to the ones that were not included in the .NET 2.0 framework.