WCF service works with localhost, but not with an IP address - wcf

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I've looked through the other similar questions, but not been able to resolve my own problem.
I have a WCF service that works if I connect to it with:
http://localhost:35001/SchoolLightService.svc
but not if I use the computer's ip-address (from within the LAN):
http://192.168.1.4:35001/SchoolLightService.svc
The error message is (had to change the ip number (the above one) to "my ip" to please Stackoverflow):
Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from
http://"my ip":35001/SchoolLightService.svc If this is a Windows
(R) Communication Foundation service to which you have access, please
check that you have enabled metadata publishing at the specified
address. For help enabling metadata publishing, please refer to the
MSDN documentation at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata Exchange
Error URI: http://"my ip":35001/SchoolLightService.svc
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved:
'http://"my ip":35001/SchoolLightService.svc'. There was no
endpoint listening at http://"my ip":35001/SchoolLightService.svc
that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect
address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more
details. Unable to connect to the remote server No connection
could be made because the target machine actively refused it
"my ip":35001HTTP GET Error URI: http://"my ip":35001/SchoolLightService.svc There was an error
downloading 'http://"my ip":35001/SchoolLightService.svc'.
Unable to connect to the remote server No connection could be made
because the target machine actively refused it "my ip":35001
The web.config looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<!-- For more information on Entity Framework configuration, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=237468 -->
<section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
</configSections>
<appSettings>
<add key="aspnet:UseTaskFriendlySynchronizationContext" value="true" />
</appSettings>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Data.Entity, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
</assemblies>
</compilation>
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="SLBehavior">
<!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the values below to false before deployment -->
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpGetUrl="" />
<!-- 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>
<services >
<service name="SchoolLightWCF.SchoolLightService"
behaviorConfiguration="SLBehavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://192.168.1.4:35001" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint
address="/SchoolLightService"
binding="wsHttpBinding"
contract="SchoolLightWCF.ISchoolLightService"
/>
<endpoint
address="mex"
binding="mexHttpBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange"
/>
</service>
</services>
<protocolMapping>
<add binding="basicHttpsBinding" scheme="https" />
</protocolMapping>
<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
<diagnostics>
<messageLogging
logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" logMessagesAtServiceLevel="false"
logMalformedMessages="true" logEntireMessage="true"
maxSizeOfMessageToLog="65535000" maxMessagesToLog="500" />
</diagnostics>
</system.serviceModel>
<system.diagnostics>
<sharedListeners>
<add name="sharedListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="c:\temp\tracelog.svclog" />
</sharedListeners>
<sources>
<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Verbose, ActivityTracing" >
<listeners>
<add name="sharedListener" />
</listeners>
</source>
<source name="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging" switchValue="Verbose">
<listeners>
<add name="sharedListener" />
</listeners>
</source>
<source name="ApplicationLogging" switchValue="Information" >
<listeners>
<add name="sharedListener" />
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
</system.diagnostics>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<!--
To browse web app root directory during debugging, set the value below to true.
Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing web app folder information.
-->
<directoryBrowse enabled="true" />
</system.webServer>
<entityFramework>
<defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
<parameters>
<parameter value="v11.0" />
</parameters>
</defaultConnectionFactory>
</entityFramework>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="SLEntities" connectionString="...not relevant..." />
</connectionStrings>
</configuration>
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I solved it by publishing it to a real IIS server running on the computer. For some reason the built-in web server in Visual Studio didn't cut it.