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WCF: svc mime type not configured on Vista

Gill Cleeren

WCF

December 27, 2007

One of my intentions of the new year is learning WCF. And yes, I've been doing some coding with it these last days.

I was now trying out to use a WCFService hosted in a website, so I wanted to access the svc file via http://localhost:905/Service.svc . However, IIS7 on my Vista machine returned 404.3 - Not found and the mime type not being configured correctly to be served.
I was thinking it to be something like a configuration exe that needed to be ran before it would work, similar to aspnet_regiis.exe. And indeed, it was: the following command solved my problem:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation>Service
ModelReg.exe -i

What it did, it installed the necessary scriptmaps at the IIS metabase root and folders within.

Posted on: Thursday, December 27, 2007 5:03:25 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00) | Comments [6]

Monday, April 06, 2009 6:02:55 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

I had the same problem, and your tip solved it! Thanks!

Jason C

Monday, April 20, 2009 7:53:09 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Hey, it works. thank you so much

Budiman

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:12:08 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Thank you for simple and clear solution - exactly what was needed

Sylvia

Monday, May 04, 2009 11:20:12 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Thanks! Took ages to find what I was after. Seem to be a lot of people out there over complicating the issue.

Anon

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:26:29 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Hey! That saved me a lot of work I guess!!!

Christian Wirth

Saturday, August 01, 2009 1:40:15 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

The command is "ServiceModelReg.exe -i"

regards,
Niraj Sikotara.

Niraj

Comments are closed.

2/8/2012 10:12:16 PM

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