Question

I am hosting a WCF service in a Windows Service on one of our servers. After making it work in basicHttpBinding and building a test client in .NET (which finally worked) I went along and try to access it from PHP using the SoapClient class. The final consumer will be a PHP site so I need to make it consumable in PHP.

I got stumped when I had to enter the WSDL url in the constructor of the SoapClient class in the PHP code. Where is the WSDL? All I have is :

http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService and http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService/mex

None of these do not expose WSDL.

Being a newbie in WCF I might have asked a dumb thing (or I might have a wrong assumption somewhere). Please be gentle 😀

And no, http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService?wsdl does not show anything different than http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService 🙁

Am I forced to host it in IIS? Am I forced to use a regular WebService?

Answer 1

This might help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734765.aspx

In a nutshell you need to configure your service endpoints and behaviour. Here is a minimal example:

<system.serviceModel>   <services>      <service        <!-- Namespace.ServiceClass implementation -->       name='WcfService1.Service1'         <!-- User behaviour defined below -->       behaviorConfiguration='SimpleServiceBehaviour'>         <endpoint          address=''          binding='basicHttpBinding'         <!-- Namespace.Interface that defines our service contract -->         contract='WcfService1.IService1'/>      </service>   </services>   <behaviors>     <serviceBehaviors>       <behavior name='SimpleServiceBehaviour'>          <serviceMetadata            <!-- We allow HTTP GET -->           httpGetEnabled='true'             <!-- Conform to WS-Policy 1.5 when generating metadata -->           policyVersion='Policy15'/>        </behavior>     </serviceBehaviors>   </behaviors> </system.serviceModel> 

Don’t forget to remove the XML comments as they’re invalid where they are.