I want to run the svcutil.exe tool to access a web service on the internet. Unfortunately, whenever I try, I get a bunch of errors that include the following message:
The request failed with HTTP status 407: Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied.
As I have learned from this related post (with more details here), the problem is that I am sitting behind an authenticating proxy. That post explains that I need to edit the app.config file, but I can't figure out how to do that. I think I will use the /svcutilConfig:alternate_app.config switch, but I don't know how to construct a valid .config file to pass to that switch. What is the default app.config file that svcutil.exe uses?
Well, I think I have figured out the answer to my question:
It turns out that the default .config file used by svcutil.exe is called svcutil.exe.config, and (at least for me) it lives in this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin
I decided to just edit that file directly (rather than fumble around with the /svcutilConfig switch). I needed Admin privileges to do so.
The final contents of that file looked like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<runtime>
<generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false" />
</runtime>
<system.net>
<defaultProxy useDefaultCredentials="true" />
</system.net>
</configuration>
(with the secret sauce buried in the <system.net> element.)
In order for this all to work, I had to start the Command Prompt as Administrator, navigate to the folder listed above, and run the svcutil.exe command from there.
Hope this helps some other poor soul who gets stuck in this mess! Thanks to #AndrewWebb for the clues that got me going!
Related
I enabled SSL in Visual Studio 2015 in order to implement Facebook and Google login locally.
I changed the project URL in the Web tab of the project's properties to https://localhost:44300/ and decorated the controller with the RequireHttps attribute - ref #msdn.
Everything worked fine locally.
I reverted settings to HTTP to test something else and that caused me a problem when I tried to get back to HTTPS.
I found this SO question and tried almost every suggested solution.
Error detail:
Failed to register URL "url" for site "site" application "path".
Error description: Access is denied. (0x80070005).
I had to issue this command in DOS to solve the problem in VS 2015:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://{ip_addr}:{port}/ user=everyone
Strangely this was only needed when I moved the project to a different PC. On the original PC I didn't need it.
Turned out this very answer on the same question thread by Cayne led me to the solution.
The port change didn't work because applicationhost.config file, located in .vs folder specific for VS2015, kept bindings combo of old port for Http and Https as a default setting. No matter how many times did I change port to something else while trying with Http (only got clogged with mass of new web site bindings in the config file) as soon as I wanted to switch back to SSL it ended up with the first bindings combo. The port it complained about that can't be registered any more.
Once I deleted that first bindings combo everything was fine.
I hope this will help someone in the future.
Go to C:\Users{username}\Documents\IISExpress\config and open the applicationhost.config file.
Search for the <sites> tag in the document. You will see some lines similar to the following.
<site name="WebSite1" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_SITES_HOME%\WebSite1" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:8080:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
Replace the line <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:8080:localhost" /> as follows.
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:{required_port_number}:*" />
I think you can even remove the * marks in bindingInformation.
Then restart IIS Server (remove all IIS server related operations using Task Manager and go to C:\Program Files\IIS Express folder and run iisexpress.exe: you might need to Run as Administrator).
A console will open and if all went well, following lines will be displayed.
Successfully registered URL "http://*:{required_port_number}/" for site "Website1" application "/"
...
Also check in browser whether the required URL works now.
Here's a very useful resource...
I am currently trying to use embeded Tomcat for my application and am trying to set it up to get the URL of the http request.
Some Background:
I am using the same code as in the first answer for the post here : Howto embed Tomcat 6?
The only change I have made is :
private String catalinaHome = "/home/xyz/tomcat"; // This dir is created and has full access permissions
Also , I am looking at: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/catalina/docs/api/org/apache/catalina/startup/Embedded.html
There are no server.xml and tomcat-users.xml that I could find, so I created a tomcat-users.xml since I was getting an exception :Memory database file /home/xyz/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml cannot be read .
tomcat-users.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
</tomcat-users>
The code uses container.setRealm(new MemoryRealm());
It appears from here : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/catalina/funcspecs/fs-memory-realm.html that I should have a server.xml file and there should already be one created by default.
1] Do I need to create a server.xml, what should be the default in it ?
I have put a file with default from here : http://www.akadia.com/download/soug/tomcat/html/tomcat_server_xml.html , but just want to know what is the right thing to do ?
2]When I access http://localhost:8089/mywebapp/index.html, all i get is The requested resource () is not available, though I have an index.html page at the "webappDir" in the code
3] My only need from the embedded tomcat is to intercept so as to get the URL passed to tomcat in my code. I can then parse the URL [do my stuff] and then create a http payload and send an http response back.
I would appreciate any pointers, especially for 3] ?
Thanks!
Ok, for your first question, yo do not need server.xml. If you check the code of your initial post they are setting the parameters there. So that is what server.xml would encapsulate. In reality what happens is that Tomcat will parse server.xml for the properties you are defining on your java file where you instanciate the catalina call to start. But since it is embedded you are setting all those parameters on you class instead.
For your second question, check your logs directory and see what is being parsed. Something is happening after your service starts because it should already redirect you once you call the port. either way, just try http://localhost:8089 and see what you get back in return from tomcat. It should give you some kind of response back from the server itself.
if you do it like this "http://localhost:8089/mywebapp/index.html" you are trying to access a created context, and that might not be configured correctly, but that is just a guess right now.
Try this first and tell me what you get back. we can troubleshoot from this point and see if I can help more in that sense.
Quick question, is this windows or linux you are installing on?
If it is linux the configurations filea are located usually on /etc/tomcat6. (at least on ubuntu they are). Reply back with the version you have installed. I might be able to help you out.
I guess I should also elaborate here a little more. Tomcat is a service in linux as well, so in ubuntu you have to start tomcat in order to access it.
$: sudo service tomcat6 start
then it starts tomcat on port 8080 (usually if not changed) of your localhost. hence you type localhost:8080 to access the website for configuration of tomcat that gives you a It works prompt for you.
Let me know if you have more questions, I will try to respond to the best of my knowledge
Can I use NLog in a WCF Service? I am trying to but cannot get it to work.
First I set up a simple configuration in a Windows Forms application to check that I was setting up correctly and this wrote the log file fine (I am writing to a network location using name and not IP address).
I then did exactly the same thing in the WCF Service. It did not work.
To check permissions I then added some code to use a TextWriter.
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(fileName);
tw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);
tw.Close();
This worked OK so I know I can write to the location.
Check that your NLog.config file is in the same directory as your .svc file and NOT the Bin directory.
If you've just added the config file to the WCF project, then published it you will probably find your config file has been copied to the bin directory which is why NLog can't find it. Move it to up a level then restart the website hosting the service (to make sure the change is picked up).
This had me stumped for a while this morning!
Put your NLog config in the web.config file. Like so:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="nlog" type="NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog"/>
</configSections>
. . . (lots of web stuff)
<nlog>
<targets>
<target name="file" xsi:type="File" fileName="${basedir}/logs/nlog.log"/>
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="file" />
</rules>
</nlog>
</configuration>
See my comment to your original question for how to turn on NLog's internal logging.
To turn on NLog's internal logging, modify the top of you NLog config to look like this:
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.mono2.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
autoReload="true"
internalLogLevel="Trace"
internalLogFile="nlog_log.log"
>
The key parts are internalLogLevel and internalLogFile.
You can also set internalLogToConsole to true or false to direct the internal logging to the console.
There is another setting, throwExceptions, that tells NLog whether or not to throw exceptions. Ordinarily, this is set to false once logging is successfully configured and working. You can set it to true to help determine if your problem is due to an NLog error.
So, if you had all of those options enabled, the top of your NLog configuration might look like this:
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.mono2.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
autoReload="true"
internalLogLevel="Trace"
internalLogFile="nlog_log.log"
internalLogToConsole="true"
throwExceptions="true"
>
My first guess is that NLog is not finding the config information. Are you using an external config file (NLog.config) or "inline" configuration (in your app.config or web.config)? In your project, is(are) your config file(s) marked (in Properties) as Copy Always?
i have a WCf project,
when i add the following code to the configuration file (Web.config):
<configuration> <appsettings> <add key="Hello" value="5"/> </appsettings>....
i get this erro whentrying to debug:
"Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server is not configured correctly. See help for common configuration errors. Running the web page outside of the debugger may provide further information."
when i drop the appsettings, the WCFTestClient opens.
how do i define constants in the web.config if not in that way ?
Solved this problem by putting the AppSettings node as the last node in the section and it works!
<appSettings><add key="hello" value="Monday" /></appSettings></configuration>
funny......
I think it the case problem. the Application settings section is defined as
<appSettings>..</appSettings>
I hope you have define the service settings in your web.config
<system.serviceModel>
<services>..</services>
<bindings>..</bindings>
<behaviors>...</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>
I am running into an issue I had before; can't find my reference on how to solve it.
Here is the issue. We encrypt the connection strings section in the app.config for our client application using code below:
config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None)
If config.ConnectionStrings.SectionInformation.IsProtected = False Then
config.ConnectionStrings.SectionInformation.ProtectSection(Nothing)
' We must save the changes to the configuration file.'
config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Modified, True)
End If
The issue is we had a salesperson leave. The old laptop is going to a new salesperson and under the new user's login, when it tries to to do this we get an error. The error is:
Unhandled Exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException:
An error occurred executing the configuration section handler for connectionStrings. ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Failed to encrypt the section 'connectionStrings' using provider 'RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider'.
Error message from the provider: Object already exists.
---> System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Object already exists
http://blogs.msdn.com/mosharaf/archive/2005/11/17/protectedConfiguration.aspx#1657603
copy and paste :D
Monday, February 12, 2007 12:15 AM by Naica
re: Encrypting configuration files using protected configuration
Here is a list of all steps I've done to encrypt two sections on my PC and then deploy it to the WebServer. Maybe it will help someone...:
To create a machine-level RSA key container
aspnet_regiis -pc "DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys" -exp
Add this to web.config before connectionStrings section:
<add name="DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"
type="System.Configuration.RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider, System.Configuration, Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a,
processorArchitecture=MSIL"
keyContainerName="DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys"
useMachineContainer="true" />
Do not miss the <clear /> from above! Important when playing with encrypting/decrypting many times
Check to have this at the top of Web.Config file. If missing add it:
<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">
Save and close Web.Config file in VS (very important!)
In Command Prompt (my local PC) window go to:
C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
Encrypt: (Be aware to Change physical path for your App, or use -app option and give the name o virtual directory for app! Because I used VS on my PC I preferred the bellow option. The path is the path to Web.config file)
aspnet_regiis -pef "connectionStrings" "c:\Bla\Bla\Bla" -prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"
aspnet_regiis -pef "system.web/membership" "c:\Bla\Bla\Bla" -prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"
To Decrypt (if needed only!):
aspnet_regiis -pdf "connectionStrings" "c:\Bla\Bla\Bla"
aspnet_regiis -pdf "system.web/membership" "c:\Bla\Bla\Bla"
Delete Keys Container (if needed only!)
aspnet_regiis -pz "DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys"
Save the above key to xml file in order to export it from your local PC to the WebServer (UAT or Production)
aspnet_regiis -px "DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys" \temp\mykeyfile.xml -pri
Import the key container on WebServer servers:
aspnet_regiis -pi "DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys" \temp\mykeyfile.xml
Grant access to the key on the web server
aspnet_regiis -pa "DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys" "DOMAIN\User"
See in IIS the ASP.NET user or use:
Response.Write(System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name
Remove Grant access to the key on the web server (Only if required!)
aspnet_regiis -pr "DataProtectionConfigurationProviderKeys" "Domain\User"
Copy and Paste to WebServer the encrypted Web.config file.
I found a more elegant solution that in my original answer to myself. I found if I just logged in as th euser who orignally installed the application and caused the config file connectionstrings to be encrypted and go to the .net framework directory in a commadn prompt and run
aspnet_regiis -pa "NetFrameworkConfigurationKey" "{domain}\{user}"
it gave the other user permission to access the RSA encryption key container and it then works for the other user(s).
Just wanted to add it here as I thought I had blogged this issue on our dev blog but found it here, so in case I need to look it up again it will be here. Will add link to our dev blog point at this thread as well.
So I did get it working.
removed old users account from laptop
reset app.config to have section not protected
removed key file from all users machine keys
ran app and allowed it to protect the section
But all this did was get it working for this user.
NOW I need to know what I have to do to change the code to protect the section so that multiple users on a PC can use the application. Virtual PC here I come (well after vacation to WDW tomorrow through next Wednesday)!
any advice to help pointing me in right direction, as I am not very experienced in this RSA encryption type stuff.
Sounds like a permissions issue. The (new) user in question has write permissions to the app.config file? Was the previous user a local admin or power user that could have masked this problem?