Question

I am having problems getting a web service working using SSL and WCF.

If I check in IIS the “Require SSL” seeting then I get this error:

WebHost failed to process a request.

Sender Information:
System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/36097441
Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service
‘/’ cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The
exception message is: Service
‘ISS.MS.WebServices.MessageDispatch.MessageDispatchWebService’ has
zero application (non-infrastructure) endpoints. This might be because
no configuration file was found for your application, or because no
service element matching the service name could be found in the
configuration file, or because no endpoints were defined in the
service element.. —> System.InvalidOperationException: Service
‘ISS.MS.WebServices.MessageDispatch.MessageDispatchWebService’ has
zero application (non-infrastructure) endpoints. This might be because
no configuration file was found for your application, or because no
service element matching the service name could be found in the
configuration file, or because no endpoints were defined in the
service element.

However if I uncheck it, the page loads fine in the browser but then I get this error
when I try calling it.

Service ‘ISS.MS.WebServices.MessageDispatch.MessageDispatchWebService’
has zero application (non-infrastructure) endpoints. This might be
because no configuration file was found for your application, or
because no service element matching the service name could be found in
the configuration file, or because no endpoints were defined in the
service element.

This is the configuration:

<system.serviceModel>
    <services>
        <service name="ISS.MS.WebServices.MessageDispatchWcfService">
            <endpoint
                address="" 
                binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="basicHttpBinding_MS2" 
                contract="ISS.MS.WebServices.IMessageDispatchWcfService" />
            <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpsBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
        </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
        <serviceBehaviors>
            <behavior>
                <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="False" />
                <serviceMetadata httpsGetEnabled="true"/>
            </behavior>
        </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>

    <bindings>
        <basicHttpBinding>
            <binding name="basicHttpBinding_MS2" >
                <readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="1048576" />
               <security mode="Transport">
                </security>
            </binding>
        </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true">
    </serviceHostingEnvironment>
</system.serviceModel>

I can get it working perfectly using normal HTTP, but HTTPs doesn’t work.

I am guessing its either an IIS setting or WCF configuration issue?

Answer 1

I figured it out, the name of the service and contract was not correct…how embarrassing.

Anyone know why it would still work over HTTP even it these are incorrect?