Question

I have the following configuration file for WCF service. There is a host defined in the config. Still, when I print the service address from the client, it does not know about the host. The printed result is:

http://localhost:3187/Service1.svc/MyFolder

Why doesn’t it take into account the host name? What modification do we need to do for it?

Note: I am running from VS 2010 for running service and client website.

        Service1Client myClientService = new Service1Client();
        Response.Write(myClientService.Endpoint.Address);

Client Configuration (Autogenerated by Visual Studio)

    <client>
  <endpoint address="http://localhost:3187/Service1.svc/MyFolder"
    binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding_IService1"
    contract="MyWCFReference.IService1" name="WSHttpBinding_IService1">
    <identity>
      <userPrincipalName value="[e-mail]" />
    </identity>
  </endpoint>
</client>

The server side configuration is:

<services>

  <!--MyService-->
  <service name="MyWCFServiceApplication.MyService"
           behaviorConfiguration="WeatherServiceBehavior">

    <host>
      <baseAddresses>
        <add baseAddress="http://localhost:80/ServiceModelSamples/FreeServiceWorld"/>
      </baseAddresses>
    </host>

    <endpoint address="MyFolder"
              binding="wsHttpBinding"
              contract="MyWCFServiceApplication.IService1" />

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

</services>


  <behaviors>

  <serviceBehaviors>

    <behavior name="WeatherServiceBehavior">
      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
      <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="False"/>
    </behavior>

  </serviceBehaviors>

</behaviors>

<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />

Answer 1

When a WCF service is hosted in an ASP.NET process, through either IIS or the ASP.NET Development Server (a.k.a Cassini), the baseAddresses setting in the service’s configuration file is ignored since the service will always be reachable through the URL of the SVC file.

The URL you’re seeing on the client is therefore correct:

http://localhost:3187/Service1.svc/MyFolder

As you can see, the base address of the service becomes the URL of the SVC file on the web server.