HTTP 404 when accessing .svc file in IIS

Question

I recently created a WCF service that works fine when tested from Visual Studio 2008. but when I deploy the project to IIS and I try to access the .svc file from IIS, I get this error :

"Server Error in '/' Application.The resource cannot be found.  "

I've been having this issue for the past 4 days .

in the Handler Mappings of IIS Manager, I can see two entries for .svc :

svc-Integrated and svc-ISAPI-2.0

Answer 1

You need to add a mapping for the SVC extension to ASP.NET. The easiest way to do this is to run ServiceModelReg.exe -i from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation. You may also need to enable ASP.NET if you haven't already done so.

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If you are using Windows Server 2012 or 2016, follow these instructions instead:

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