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    copied!<p>I'm trying to learn how to build RESTful services with WCF by recreating the project on <a href="http://blogs.conchango.com/anthonysteele/archive/2008/03/15/rest-from-wcf-3-5.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this blog post</a> by Anthony Steele. He uses the following XML in his config to setup the endpoint for the service.</p> <pre><code> &lt;host&gt; &lt;baseAddresses&gt; &lt;add baseAddress="http://localhost:8080/greeter"/&gt; &lt;/baseAddresses&gt; &lt;/host&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, when I try to do the same thing in my ASP.NET 3.5 web site's web.config, I am unable to navigate to my service. Here is the XML I'm using:</p> <pre><code>&lt;system.serviceModel&gt; &lt;behaviors&gt; &lt;serviceBehaviors&gt; &lt;behavior name="GreeterBehavior"&gt; &lt;serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/&gt; &lt;serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/&gt; &lt;/behavior&gt; &lt;/serviceBehaviors&gt; &lt;/behaviors&gt; &lt;services&gt; &lt;service behaviorConfiguration="GreeterBehavior" name="Greeter"&gt; &lt;host&gt; &lt;baseAddresses&gt; &lt;add baseAddress="http://localhost:49268/TestREST/webapi/services/greeter"/&gt; &lt;/baseAddresses&gt; &lt;/host&gt; &lt;endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="IGreeter"&gt; &lt;identity&gt; &lt;dns value="localhost"/&gt; &lt;/identity&gt; &lt;/endpoint&gt; &lt;endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/&gt; &lt;/service&gt; &lt;/services&gt; &lt;/system.serviceModel&gt; </code></pre> <p>I would imagine my configuration would allow me to navigate to <a href="http://localhost:49268/TestREST/webapi/services/greeter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:49268/TestREST/webapi/services/greeter</a> and see my service. All I get is a resource not found message - am I missing something?</p> <p>Edit: Part of my problem was my binding was wsHttpBinding. Using webHttpBinding allowed me to use the service correctly - except, the baseAddress config section still has no effect.</p>
 

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