Few days back I developed a Silverlight application, which uses a WCF Service to communicate to Database. After the development when I tried to deploy the WCF Service on my IIS, it was displaying some error like
Server Error in Application “Default Web Site/SampleApp”
HTTP Error 404.3 – Not Found
Description: The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) map policy that is configured on the Web server. The page you requested has a file name extension that is not recognized, and is not allowed.
Error Code: 0×80070032
Notification: ExecuteRequestHandler
Module: StaticFileModule
Requested URL: http://localhost:80/SampleApp/CoreService.svc
Physical Path: C:\Users\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\SampleApp\SampleApp\CoreService.svc
Logon User: Anonymous
Logon Method: Anonymous
Handler: StaticFile
I tried IIS MimeTypes and I couldn’t found an application mapping for SVC file. After doing some searching I found the fix. It is happening because of not registering the WCF in IIS. You can resolve this using WCF Installation utility which comes with .Net Framework 3.0. Run the command prompt as Administrator, go to the Windows Communication Foundation folder in c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\ folder. Execute the servicemodelreg.exe with -i or /i switch. After the installation try reloading the Page. It will fix this issue.
