WCF host address question

when I setup the wcf service on a web server, I set the end point address as

<endpoint address="http://www.mydomin.com/clientname/happy.svc" 
              binding="basicHttpBinding"开发者_运维技巧 
              name="happysvcbasic" 
              contract="happysvc.Ihappysvc">

</endpoint>

but when type in above address on a browser, I get a different host name, which is the internal server name, such as,

To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. You can do this using the svcutil.exe tool from the command line with the following syntax:

svcutil.exe http://internalservername.domain/clientname/happy.svc?wsdl

I tried to add the host/baseaddress tag, but make no difference, what I missed? thanks for help.

When you host via IIS your service in IIS the address is always relative. Assuming you want to achieve something with your endpoint remove the http://

   <endpoint address="clientname" 

And then your endpoint would be http://localhost/virtualdirectory/happy.svc/clientname

The use for this is when you are exposing multiple endpoints, as each endpoint has to have a unique address.

See or This for more information.

If you are trying to setup a different dns address for your service you need to change the way you have hosted your website and use host headers.

When you host your WCF service in IIS, you do not get to choose the address, so setting an address= in your <endpoint> is absolutely useless, as is setting base addresses.

When hosting in IIS, the only things that determine your WCF service address are:

• the IIS server machine name/IP address, plus possibly a port number
• the virtual directory and possibly any subdirectories where your happy.svc file is located
• the name of your *.svc file itself, including the .svc extension

So your WCF service address will be something like:

http://yourserver:80/VirtualDirectory/SubDirectory/happy.svc

That's all there is, and you can't change that (at least not now, in WCF 3.5 - it might be different in WCF in .NET 4).

So now: what is your question, really?