WCF Not Using My Domain Name, But Rather My Computer Name When Viewing MyService.Svc?Wsdl

HOWTO: Fix WCF Host Name on IIS
By gavinmckay
This is a problem I have tripped across before, and it just popped up again. Time for a post on how to fix it, mainly so I won’t have to track down MSDN articles and obscure posts to remember how to do it!

When building a WCF Web Service on your local machine, the service will automatically generate WSDL for you with an address similar to http://YOURPC/MyService.svc. This works fine when testing locally, but when you want to publish this to your production environment so it can be used by World + Dog, it doesn’t respect the fact you have a nice URL you would like to use instead. For example, if your production server is “Server01″ and the URL you have assigned to the website in IIS is my.publicserver.com, your service may look like this:


Instead of displaying the “real” URL (my.publicserver.com), it displays the name of the server (server01) instead. Not at all what is required! Worse still, connections to your web server will fail because the WSDL is pointing to the non-published server name and your client won’t be able to get there. This is because WCF automatically uses the IIS Site Bindings to determine what the base addresses for the service should be.

The solution is to update the IIS metabase so IIS knows what to do with the request, then WCF will pick up on this. To fix this, perform the following steps.

Get the Website Identifier from IIS

To change the site bindings you need to know which site to change. Open the IIS Manager to view the sites available, find the one you want to change, and record the website id in the “Identifier” column. You will need this in the next step.
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The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration

Recently, I migrated to Windows 7 and ended up installing all my software's again. I had a project which involved hosting a WCF service on IIS. The service used a .svc file extension and IIS 7 on my machine was not aware how to handle these files.

The error I got looked something like this:

HTTP Error 404.3 – Not Found

The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map. Detailed Error InformationModule StaticFileModule.

There were more errors related to local machine below these errors.I looked up the net and after some digging figured out the solution to the problem:

Run Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as “Administrator”.
Navigate to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation.
Run this command servicemodelreg –i.
The servicemodelreg is a command line tool which provides the ability to manage the registration on ServiceModel on a machine. You can get more info on the tool at MSDN here.

I guess the mistake I made was enabling IIS post installing VS and .NET 3.5 or else the services are not turned on for IIS 7.0 by default.

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syntax for adding dll to gac and forcing reinstall

[directory where dll is located][directory where gacutil is located]\gacutil /i [dll full name]/f

jQuery's ajax request by POST method cause the security validation error

To avoid security validation error:

- First you need to make sure that your web.config file is updated to support Ajax.Net. In turn that will enable you to use ajax calls with json parameters. There are a lot of changes there, so be careful.
- Use Fidler to see the actual request/response, this may shed some more light on the matter
- Make sure GetDataMethod is a static
- Make sure 'data' is a valid jason object passed as a string
- Make sure 'dataType' is 'json', assuming you updated the web.config
- Make sure 'contentType' is 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
Finally, the proper ajax POST format is like so:

$.ajax({
    'type'  : 'POST',
    'url'  :  'GetSampleData.aspx/GetDataMethod',
    'data' :  '{data:"abcdfg"}',
    'contentType': 'application/json;  charset=utf-8',
    'dataType'  : 'json',
    'success' :  function (data) {
    //process data
    },
    'error'  :  function (xhttp, textStatus, errorThrown) {
    //show error
    }
});

Migrating IIS from one server to another ...

I had to move IIS server from server A to server B and was faced with lengthy task of manually creating all virtual directories ...
Then I thought that there must be easier way to handle that and there it was
Link to source "Migrating IIS"

To summarize it basically includes following steps:

1.  Create back up on IIS server A (with password)
2.  Grab the backup from following location: ..\system32\inetsrv\metaback
3.  Copy backup to server B on the same location ..\system32\inetsrv\metaback
4.  Run restore on IIS server B pointing to created backup
5.  When IIS ask for password provide it and that's it :-)

How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL Servers ...

Here is a short explanation about how to move logins between instances of sql servers

1. Create store procedure 

USE master
GO
IF OBJECT_ID ('sp_hexadecimal') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE sp_hexadecimal
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_hexadecimal
@binvalue varbinary(256),
@hexvalue varchar (514) OUTPUT
AS
DECLARE @charvalue varchar (514)
DECLARE @i int
DECLARE @length int
DECLARE @hexstring char(16)
SELECT @charvalue = '0x'
SELECT @i = 1
SELECT @length = DATALENGTH (@binvalue)
SELECT @hexstring = '0123456789ABCDEF'
WHILE (@i <= @length) BEGIN  DECLARE @tempint int  DECLARE @firstint int  DECLARE @secondint int  SELECT @tempint = CONVERT(int, SUBSTRING(@binvalue,@i,1))  SELECT @firstint = FLOOR(@tempint/16)  SELECT @secondint = @tempint - (@firstint*16)  SELECT @charvalue = @charvalue +    SUBSTRING(@hexstring, @firstint+1, 1) +    SUBSTRING(@hexstring, @secondint+1, 1)  SELECT @i = @i + 1 END  SELECT @hexvalue = @charvalue GO  IF OBJECT_ID ('sp_help_revlogin') IS NOT NULL  DROP PROCEDURE sp_help_revlogin GO CREATE PROCEDURE sp_help_revlogin @login_name sysname = NULL AS DECLARE @name sysname DECLARE @type varchar (1) DECLARE @hasaccess int DECLARE @denylogin int DECLARE @is_disabled int DECLARE @PWD_varbinary  varbinary (256) DECLARE @PWD_string  varchar (514) DECLARE @SID_varbinary varbinary (85) DECLARE @SID_string varchar (514) DECLARE @tmpstr  varchar (1024) DECLARE @is_policy_checked varchar (3) DECLARE @is_expiration_checked varchar (3)  DECLARE @defaultdb sysname  IF (@login_name IS NULL)  DECLARE login_curs CURSOR FOR       SELECT p.sid, p.name, p.type, p.is_disabled, p.default_database_name, l.hasaccess, l.denylogin FROM sys.server_principals p LEFT JOIN sys.syslogins l      ON ( l.name = p.name ) WHERE p.type IN ( 'S', 'G', 'U' ) AND p.name <> 'sa'
ELSE
DECLARE login_curs CURSOR FOR


SELECT p.sid, p.name, p.type, p.is_disabled, p.default_database_name, l.hasaccess, l.denylogin FROM
sys.server_principals p LEFT JOIN sys.syslogins l
ON ( l.name = p.name ) WHERE p.type IN ( 'S', 'G', 'U' ) AND p.name = @login_name
OPEN login_curs

FETCH NEXT FROM login_curs INTO @SID_varbinary, @name, @type, @is_disabled, @defaultdb, @hasaccess, @denylogin
IF (@@fetch_status = -1)
BEGIN
PRINT 'No login(s) found.'
CLOSE login_curs
DEALLOCATE login_curs
RETURN -1
END
SET @tmpstr = '/* sp_help_revlogin script '
PRINT @tmpstr
SET @tmpstr = '** Generated ' + CONVERT (varchar, GETDATE()) + ' on ' + @@SERVERNAME + ' */'
PRINT @tmpstr
PRINT ''
WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1)
BEGIN
IF (@@fetch_status <> -2)
BEGIN
PRINT ''
SET @tmpstr = '-- Login: ' + @name
PRINT @tmpstr
IF (@type IN ( 'G', 'U'))
BEGIN -- NT authenticated account/group

SET @tmpstr = 'CREATE LOGIN ' + QUOTENAME( @name ) + ' FROM WINDOWS WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE = [' + @defaultdb + ']'
END
ELSE BEGIN -- SQL Server authentication
-- obtain password and sid
SET @PWD_varbinary = CAST( LOGINPROPERTY( @name, 'PasswordHash' ) AS varbinary (256) )
EXEC sp_hexadecimal @PWD_varbinary, @PWD_string OUT
EXEC sp_hexadecimal @SID_varbinary,@SID_string OUT

-- obtain password policy state
SELECT @is_policy_checked = CASE is_policy_checked WHEN 1 THEN 'ON' WHEN 0 THEN 'OFF' ELSE NULL END FROM sys.sql_logins WHERE name = @name
SELECT @is_expiration_checked = CASE is_expiration_checked WHEN 1 THEN 'ON' WHEN 0 THEN 'OFF' ELSE NULL END FROM sys.sql_logins WHERE name = @name

SET @tmpstr = 'CREATE LOGIN ' + QUOTENAME( @name ) + ' WITH PASSWORD = ' + @PWD_string + ' HASHED, SID = ' + @SID_string + ', DEFAULT_DATABASE = [' + @defaultdb + ']'

IF ( @is_policy_checked IS NOT NULL )
BEGIN
SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + ', CHECK_POLICY = ' + @is_policy_checked
END
IF ( @is_expiration_checked IS NOT NULL )
BEGIN
SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + ', CHECK_EXPIRATION = ' + @is_expiration_checked
END
END
IF (@denylogin = 1)
BEGIN -- login is denied access
SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + '; DENY CONNECT SQL TO ' + QUOTENAME( @name )
END
ELSE IF (@hasaccess = 0)
BEGIN -- login exists but does not have access
SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + '; REVOKE CONNECT SQL TO ' + QUOTENAME( @name )
END
IF (@is_disabled = 1)
BEGIN -- login is disabled
SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + '; ALTER LOGIN ' + QUOTENAME( @name ) + ' DISABLE'
END
PRINT @tmpstr
END

FETCH NEXT FROM login_curs INTO @SID_varbinary, @name, @type, @is_disabled, @defaultdb, @hasaccess, @denylogin
END
CLOSE login_curs
DEALLOCATE login_curs
RETURN 0

2. Execute following store procedure: EXEC sp_help_revlogin

That's it, source link

How To: Create and Install Temporary Certificates in WCF for Message Security During Development

Here is a link to how to deal with WCF certificates.

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