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RESTful WCF Service errors when hosted on HTTPS only

A few years ago I followed this RESTful WCF Services with No svc file and No config very useful article on setting up RESTful WCF with out using svc files and worked like a dream. But recently I've had to move the site over to HTTPS (still keeping the HTTP for testing) and all worked fine, until I removed the binding for the HTTP site and I get an error message that points back to this entry in the web.config:

<webHttpEndpoint>
<standardEndpoint name="" helpEnabled="true" automaticFormatSelectionEnabled="true"/>
</webHttpEndpoint>

Removing the entry fixes the error, but it stops the auto generated help page that this setting provides.

Here is a brief snippet of the 2 errors that is thrown:

Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/myService' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: Could not find a base address that matches scheme http for the endpoint with binding WebHttpBinding. Registered base address schemes are [https].. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a base address that matches scheme http for the endpoint with binding WebHttpBinding. Registered base address schemes are [https].

Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/MyService' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: An endpoint reference cycle was detected in your configuration. The following reference cycle must be removed: webHttpEndpoint/, webHttpEndpoint/. (...\web.config line 222). ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: An endpoint reference cycle was detected in your configuration. The following reference cycle must be removed: webHttpEndpoint/, webHttpEndpoint/. (...\web.config line 222)

Hoping someone has seen and fixed this problem before.

Solution

  • Figured this, so I needed a binding, the updated web.config is like this:

    <bindings>
  <webHttpBinding>
    <binding>
      <security mode="Transport" />
    </binding>
  </webHttpBinding>
</bindings>


<standardEndpoints>
  <webHttpEndpoint>
    <standardEndpoint name="" helpEnabled="true" automaticFormatSelectionEnabled="true" />                 
  </webHttpEndpoint>
</standardEndpoints>