WCF Hosted in IIS 7.0 Binding Issue - wcf-binding

Question

I have hosted a WCF Service on IIS7 by creating a WCFService Application Project Type.
In WCF Service Solution, there are two Project. 1) Actual *WCFService* *and 2) WCFService Application* for hosting it in IIS7.0
1) Actual WCFService Project. app.config
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true"/>
</system.web>
<!-- When deploying the service library project, the content of the config file must be added to the host's
app.config file. System.Configuration does not support config files for libraries. -->
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="DHDocuments.DService">
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding"
contract="DHDocuments.IDService" >
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:8732/Design_Time_Addresses/DHDocuments/DService/"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="False"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
</configuration>
2) WCFService Application web.config
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="DHDocuments.DService">
<endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration=""
name="basic"
contract="DHDocuments.IDService"/>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<!-- 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>
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true"/>
</system.serviceModel>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
In the IIS its being hosted. Its available at http://localhost:2004/DService.svc
Now Coming to the WCF Consuming Project,
I have added a Service Reference by Pointing to the http://localhost:2004/DService.svc. In my WCF Consuming client project this is the app.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://localhost:2004/DService.svc"
binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="basic1"
contract="WCFDHService.IDService"
name="basic" />
</client>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="basic1" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00"
receiveTimeout="00:10:00"
sendTimeout="00:01:00" allowCookies="false"
bypassProxyOnLocal="false"
hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288"
maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8"
transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192"
maxArrayLength="16384" maxBytesPerRead="4096"
maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None"
proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName"
algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>
This now complains:
The binding at system.serviceModel/bindings/basicHttpBinding does not have a configured binding named 'basic1'. This is an invalid value for bindingConfiguration
**
Can someone point what is being missed?
There is no problem when I have utilised wcf service directly by debug mode, without hosting it in IIS. I am sure, the binding config is getting error.

Answer 1

It appears that you have configured your services for metadata discovery with a mex endpoint:
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
Another endpoint in the service configuration is defined as wsHttpBinding:
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="DHDocuments.IDService" >
I am guessing since mex is enabled the client proxy will generate a wsdl, however, you need to specify https if using transport security. Or add a endpoint for basicHttpBinding in your wcf service.
It seems like you are trying to access your service in the client proxy using a basicHttpBinding configuration but the service is not configured to accept or listen for such.