WCF service

nippynoo · 18 Jun 2011 at 19:10

anyone know if a WCF service (.svc) can be made to work from a folder on an apache server?

or does it need to sit on IIS? and if so, how is the folder 'activated'? I've got some free space on my uni's ASP.NET server, in a sub-folder with my initials. I've tried putting the svc etc in my Web folder at the uni, but the service reference is not recognised from external client (my machine at home)

robotSocks · 20 Jun 2011 at 19:31

it can't - you're doing it wrong

Dj_Jestar · 21 Jun 2011 at 00:00

It needs to be run on IIS.

nippynoo · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:53

ok, thanks guys, i only thought it might because Silverlight can... but I see why now.

Anyway I bought an ASP.NET account at tsohost (v.good service by the way) and my new WCF service works like a dream - yes it says "hello" and also writes it to a textfile - my next step is to find out how to say "hello world" ;-)

I did struggle to find an understandable tutorial for VS2010, but once I did it was plain sailing - except I needed to set <impersonate="true"/> to get the file access permissions.