IIS7 Hosting WCF

I was setting up a project on my local box that was hosting a WCF service. These web services have a .svc file extension and apparently IIS 7 out of the box doesn’t know what to do with them.

The error you get will look something like this:

HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found

The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map. Detailed Error InformationModule StaticFileModule

And there will be more info listed below that shows some items related to your local machine. So after much trial and error and a lot of Google slapping, I finally found the answer to my problem.
Open Visual Studio 2008 Command prompt.

Navigate to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation

Run this command: servicemodelreg –i


Apparently when IIS 7 is installed they don’t turn everything on for you and so you are required to do it yourself.

Hopefully, this has saved some of you some time and frustration.

Referencia. http://tonytriguero.com/iis-7-and-webservices-svc-file-extension/