error “No protocol binding matches the given address …”

Question

I have 2 WCF serivces hosted in IIS server.

Here is web.config

Answer 1

When you host your WCF services in IIS, your address defined in the service endpoints is not the one you need to use.

<endpoint 
      // this is **NOT** the address you can use to call your service! 
      address="http://localhost:9001/BubensService"

Rather, the web server, its port (usually 80) and the virtual directory plus the SVC file determine your service address. So you service addresses here would be:

http://YourServer/YourVirtualDirectory/YourServiceFile.svc/

What you can do is define relative addresses, e.g.:

<service name="BShop.Services.BubensService">
   <endpoint name="" 
             address="BubensService" 
             binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="HttpBinding"  
             contract="BShop.Services.IBubensService" />
</service>

Then this service would be callable at :

http://YourServer/YourVirtualDirectory/YourServiceFile.svc/BubensService

Answer 2

N.B. If anyone facing this problem while viewing WCF service in browser during development using Visual Studio, this one is for them.

I was facing this problem when trying to view my .svc service from VS after assigning a value to endpoint address attribute in Web.config file, but if I don't assign the endpoint address attribute a value then it works perfectly.

Answer 3

Just for the benefit of people searching. I came across this problem. To fix it I reviewed the web.config using marc_s 's answer then did the following as I still had problems:

1. Delete Virtual Directory.
2. Went to project properties - > Web Panel -> Selected 'Use Local IIS Web Server' with project url of http://{localhost}/{myservice} (obviously without the braces) and re-created the virtual directory.
3. Changed the App Pool to .NET 4 with integrated pipeline mode. The app pool change seemed to fix it.