Skip to main content

Change HostName for a WCF service in IIS 7

If you have create a simple WCF service “HelloWorld.svc”  and you load it up inside your Visual Studio,  you get a result like this if metadata publishing is enabled.

21180971nu8

The host name “mycomputer.private.mydomain.com” is automatically picked up by WCF.   Of course if this service is hosted on a public server, you don’t want to expose the server name to the consumers of your service. In the real production environment, you would want to use a public host name or even an IP address in the address.

Therefore open up the IIS manager, select the website of your choice and click on the Bindings link in the Actions part.

iis7-install-4

In the window that shows up add the hostname you want to use(for example www.microsoft.com). The first time I did this I got following exception:

This collection already contains an address with scheme http.  There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection.
Parameter name: item

This error was caused by the fact that I now had 2 addresses pointing to the same scheme. Therefore instead of adding a second hostname, change the hostname on the existing http scheme.  This should do the trick…

Popular posts from this blog

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities.  DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with these tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. Many tools are available. Here is the current list: Converters JSON <> YAML Timestamp Number Base Cron Parser Encoders / Decoders HTML URL Base64 Text & Image GZip JWT Decoder Formatters JSON SQL XML Generators Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) UUID 1 and 4 Lorem Ipsum Checksum Text Escape / Unescape Inspector & Case Converter Regex Tester Text Comparer XML Validator Markdown Preview Graphic Color B

Help! I accidently enabled HSTS–on localhost

I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was running in IIS and had a certificate configured. But when I tried to run an Angular app a little bit later on http://localhost:4200 the browser redirected me immediately to https://localhost . Whoops! That was not what I wanted in this case. To fix it, you need to go the network settings of your browser, there are available at: chrome://net-internals/#hsts edge://net-internals/#hsts brave://net-internals/#hsts Enter ‘localhost’ in the domain textbox under the Delete domain security policies section and hit Delete . That should do the trick…

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.