WCF rest service: unable to call methods - wcf

Question

Please tell me I'm doing something stupid in setting up my wcf rest service.
I've create a web application and added a wcf service to it.
Here is my web.config
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="WebApplication1.Service1">
<endpoint address="../Service1" behaviorConfiguration="httpBehavior"
binding="webHttpBinding"
contract="WebApplication1.IService1"/>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<endpointBehaviors>
<behavior name="httpBehavior">
<webHttp helpEnabled="true" />
</behavior>
</endpointBehaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="">
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
</configuration>
And my service interface:
[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
[OperationContract]
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "data/{value}", ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
Person GetData(string value);
}
And my service code:
public class Service1 : IService1
{
public Person GetData(string value)
{
return new Person()
{
Id = Convert.ToInt32(value),
Name = "John Doe"
};
}
}
public class Person
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
I have no problems browsing to the service
http://localhost/RoleProviderSite/Service1.svc
but as soon as I add the data/10
http://localhost/RoleProviderSite/Service1.svc/data/10
"There was no channel actively listening at 'http://mymachinename/RoleProviderSite/Service1.svc/data/10"
I would have thought that adding the "[WebGet(UriTemplate = "data/{value}", ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]" would mean that this url would be accessible, but maybe I'm missing something?
I'm using :
Internet Information Services, Version: 5.1
and XP OS
Thanks very much for any help.

Answer 1

remove the address in the endpoint and your URI should work as expected. You cannot use relative addressing like that for your endpoint