WCF hosting: Can access svc file but cannot go to wsdl link

Question

I have a WCF service that is hosted in IIS 7.5. I have two servers, one for test and one for production.

The service works fine on test server, but on the production ser

Answer 1

You basically need three things to enable browsing to your WSDL for a WCF service:

1. a service behavior which enables service metadata
2. set the httpGetEnabled=True on that service metadata behavior to allow http browsing to that metadata
3. a mex endpoint on your service

So your config on the server side might looks something like this (plus a bit more stuff):

Points 1 and 2 are handled by this line here:

You need to reference that service behavior in your tag for it to become active.

Point 3 (MEX endpoint) is this section here:

For http, use the mexHttpBinding, and the IMetadataExchange contract is a WCF system contract for metadata exchange .