Need Help in Hosting a WCF Service

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Hi I'm trying to Host a WCF service on the web Hosting's IIS. But failed to do so. I've a test Service Project which I'm currently trying to Host just for checking purpose. The project runs and host successfully within the Visual Studio 2010 Development environment.

I would really appreciate if You could guide me to the process of Hosting a WCF service. I tried couple of things like create a new directory from the Control Panel's File Manager and Upload the files there, But could be successful. Apparently, The hosting only accepts the "Index" File type to be run like (index.html) when I try to put the service project on the httpdocs folder.T

I googled A lot but the only best thing I could find was hosting locally on IIS. That didn't work as well for me. I'm a newbie to this so Your help would really be appreciated. Thank you.

My hosting domain is "www.collect-info.com‏".

How I'm doing my working:

1. I've created a "WCF Service Library" name as "Collect Info". Here is the App.config code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="cn" connectionString="Data Source=AHMAD-PC\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=InfoCollect;Integrated Security=True"/>
  </connectionStrings>
  
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true"/>
  </system.web>

<startup><supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/></startup>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <behaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="CollectInfoSvcWebBehaviour">
          <webHttp />
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="CollectInfoSvcBehaviour">
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <services>
      <service behaviorConfiguration="CollectInfoSvcBehaviour" name="CollectInfo.InfoCollectService">
        <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="" binding="webHttpBinding"
          bindingConfiguration="" name="InfoCollectSvcWebHttp" contract="CollectInfo.IInfoCollectService"
          isSystemEndpoint="false" />
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration=""
          name="CollectInfoSvcMexEndPoint" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
        <host>
          <baseAddresses>
            <add baseAddress="http://localhost/CollectInfoSvc/" />
          </baseAddresses>
        </host>
      </service>
    </services>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

2. I included the Service Reference of the WCF library on the WCF project. After that, I created another project of "WCF Project" and removed it's default IService.cs file and changed the mark up of the Service1.svc to point to the ServiceClass.cs of the Service Library.

Markeup:

<%@ ServiceHost Service="CollectInfo.InfoCollectService" %>

Web.config File :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings/>
  <connectionStrings/>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>
    <!--
        The <authentication> section enables configuration 
        of the security authentication mode used by 
        ASP.NET to identify an incoming user. 
    -->
    <authentication mode="Windows"/>
    <!--
        The <customErrors> section enables configuration 
        of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs 
        during the execution of a request. Specifically, 
        it enables developers to configure html error pages 
        to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.

        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
         <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
         <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
        </customErrors>
    -->
    <pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" clientIDMode="AutoID"/>
  </system.web>
  <!-- 
      The system.webServer section is required for running ASP.NET AJAX under Internet
      Information Services 7.0.  It is not necessary for previous version of IIS.
  -->
  <system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="CollectInfo.InfoCollectService" behaviorConfiguration="CollectInfoHost.Service1Behavior">
        <!-- Service Endpoints -->
        <endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="CollectInfo.IInfoCollectService">
          <!-- 
              Upon deployment, the following identity element should be removed or replaced to reflect the 
              identity under which the deployed service runs.  If removed, WCF will infer an appropriate identity 
              automatically.
          -->
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost"/>
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="CollectInfoHost.Service1Behavior">
          <!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint above before deployment -->
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
          <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>