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Trouble in hosting WCF Service in IIS 5.1


I am having trouble hosting a simple WCF service application in IIS 5.1 (XP SP3).

I follow this Pluralsight tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVPXLF-g4Ws) but still the service won't load and shows IE blank page "You are not authorized to view this page .. HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden "

any advice? how to host WCF service in IIS 5.1.


Solution

  • Try changing the IIS Authentication for your IIS host website to "Anonymous" and see if that is where your problem is and if doing this makes it work.

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    NOTE: In reality, you will need to set your authentication in IIS based on whatever your authentication method is going to be.