Getting HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found while browsing WCF Service.

Question

_{Friday, February 5, 2010 6:30 AM}

Hello

I have hosted a WCF service on IIS 7.5. The OS of the host machine is Windows 7.

My service url looks like this (I can not post the actual url)

http://localhost/VirtualDirectory/Servicename.svc  When i am trying to browse this it gives me error saying

HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found

The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map.

I have no clue how to solve this error.

Please help me out.

Thanks in Advance.

--Vishnu

All replies (5)

_{Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:58 AM ✅Answered}

1. From the IIS Management console, open a connection to the website.
2. In the Features View, double-click MIME Types.
3. In the Actions pane, click Add.
4. In the Add MIME Type dialog box, type a file name extension in the File Name Extension text box. For example, type .svc.
5. Type a MIME type in the MIME Type text box. For example, type application/octet-stream.
6. Click Ok.

 

 

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_{Friday, February 5, 2010 12:49 PM}

so is WCF enabled/installed ? 404.3 IIS is not able to parse the request.

 

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_{Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:58 AM}

Err. I thought when WCF is installed, the mimetype is registered with IIS ?

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_{Monday, December 13, 2010 9:17 PM}

Hi WenJun Zhang I am having similar problem when I try to browse WCF service (.svc file) which is hosted in IIS7 & Windows7. I tried to run ServiceModelReg, but it say I should have admin rights in order to run this, although I am admin on this machine. It would be really great if you know to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance. Regards, Shailesh shailshukla@yahoo.com

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_{Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:26 PM}

Did you run the command prompt in elevated mode? runas administrator?