Unable to host web service in IIS

Question

I've been working on a webservice, and testing it by viewing it in a browser directly from VS2012, but now I need to host it in IIS, and for some reason, it simply will not work.

I've tried publishing it as a new web application under my local IIS. It shows up as it should, but when I switch to Content View in IIS, right-click the MyService.svc file, and choose "browse", all I get is a new web-browser window saying the site was not found.

To check if the problem was relating to something in my service, or was general, I tried creating a new test-service from a VS project template (a new WCF Service Application), which i compiled, ran in my browser nicely, then tried to publish to IIS, with the same result.

A little extra info:

I'm working on 64-bit windows 8
Both projects are in .Net 4.0
My configuration has Platform Target set to Any CPU
In IIS, the services use the DefaultAppPool with default settings

I've been able to publish a website in IIS recently, and it works fine - I really thought the process was supposed to be just about the same for a service, but apparently I'm missing something.

Update: A little extra info in response to comments below:

I'm currently trying to view the service locally
There is no .asmx file, only a .svc file, a web.config, and a bin/ folder in the folder where the service is published.
I do have a site running under the same IIS website ("Default Web Site"), and that works fine.

Any tips as to what I can try in order to resolve this will be greatly appreciated....

Check if the site (e.g. Default Web Site) under which you have put your service is running. Also, try creating a very simple HTML page, putting it along with .svc file and try browsing to it. — publicgk, Mar 19 '13 at 18:19
Could you show your `Web.config` file? It could be a mistake in the `system.serviceModel` section. — Silvermind, Mar 19 '13 at 18:23
Would this help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11460142/cannot-serve-wcf-services-in-iis-on-windows-8 — mattyB, Mar 19 '13 at 19:05
@mattyB Thanks, that did in fact solve my problem. I just needed to enable HTTP Activation for .Net Framework Advanced Services. — Kjartan, Mar 20 '13 at 08:53

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '13 at 11:52

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For the record, this was what solved the problem for me:

enable HTTP Activation

answered Mar 21 '13 at 11:52

Kjartan

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