WCF service in local network

Question

I have created and started WCF service on my development machine.

When I use http://localhost:8080/ServiceName/Function as URL, works fine.

When I use http://MY.LAN.IP.ADDRESS:8080/ServiceName/Function as URL, it is NOT working anywhere, not on development machine not on other machines in LAN.

For example, in Android test app, the error message says:

"Connection to http://... is refused"

I have disabled windows firewall and antivirus.

What is causing such problem? Do I need to configure something in service configuration (web.config)?

Note that service is running inside ASP.Net Development Server.

Answer 1

According to this site, you should check to see if the random port that the Development Server chooses (which, in your case would be 8080) is open on the firewall. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure that it will work at all without a version of IIS installed and configured for these remote requests.

Answer 2

The ASP.NET Development Server cannot accept remote connections, so this won't work from outside of local machine

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/58wxa9w5%28VS.80%29.aspx

Answer 3

I'm not sure how you have it configured; as that can actually cause complications. But your issue resides within your Host . How your creating the Host to receive your Proxies . One thing that may be happening:

When it runs on your local machine it actually is enabling IIS Express so you can view the service and test it. So at that moment IIS is handling those request. Which allows it to work without a problem.

The other dilemma are these:

• The Development Server may not be configured to receive outside request.
• IIS Server may not be configured to receive those request.
• Or it has created a random port usage; which is not accessible.

That is more then likely what is happening. Since IIS is automatically handling it; one of those are more then likely not correct.

But until we see your app.config and ServiceHost code details we can't be for certain.