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If I have a machine running a WCF service, what would the address be for it on a different machine on network?

http://localhost:8080/api/stages = ???

Michael Meritt
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When you are hosting your WCF Service, you provide address through endpoint. The remote server will use the same address to access your service. For example, consider the following configuration

<system.serviceModel>
  <services>
    <service name="ServiceLib.Services.TaskService">
      <endpoint address="TaskManager"
                binding="wsHttpBinding"
                contract="ServiceLib.Contracts.ITaskService" />
    </service>
  </services>
  <serviceHostingEnvironment>
    <serviceActivations>
      <add service="ServiceLib.Services.TaskService" 
           relativeAddress="TaskService.svc"/>
    </serviceActivations>
  </serviceHostingEnvironment>
</system.serviceModel>

In this case, if the service is hosted on IIS with URL of http://localhost:8080/ then the url of your service would be http://localhost:8080/TaskService.svc/TaskManager

Sandeep Saran
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  • Wow. I think you deciphered my question. Thanks. Do you have the same details if I was to use my Web API project instead of the WCF? – Michael Meritt Jun 03 '16 at 15:55
  • Oh. Is it possible to access the service from a different machine over the network? example: http://[host-name-or-ip]/TaskService.svc/TaskManager ? – Michael Meritt Jun 03 '16 at 15:59