Web Service Request Using localhost in the URL gives 404 error
System:
IIS 5.0 Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
ASP.NET 1.1
Multiple Layers of web services, all running on the same server.
I recently was making a minor change to a web service that had not been changed for about a year. I could not get the changes to work. I tried restoring the old source files and I still could not get it to work.
I eventually figured out that the URL I had been using for the last 3 years was causing the problem. Web service WSA called web service WSB using a dynamic URL: "http://localhost/WSB/WSB.asmx".
When I changed "localhost" to the name of the machine that both web services are on, it worked. When I changed "localhost" to "appserver", which is the string just below "localhost" in my System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts
When I use "localhost", I get a 404 error, and the error I get indicates that instead of looking in the directory which is defined for the application: C:\WebStuff\WSB, IIS is looking in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\WSB.
What is going on here? I am assuming that the application WSA, or at least the Web Service Proxy, had not been recompiled for over a year, and by refreshing the web service reference, I cause that recompile. But, the URL is not compiled in, it is specified at runtime.
Thanks,
David
IIS 5.0 Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
ASP.NET 1.1
Multiple Layers of web services, all running on the same server.
I recently was making a minor change to a web service that had not been changed for about a year. I could not get the changes to work. I tried restoring the old source files and I still could not get it to work.
I eventually figured out that the URL I had been using for the last 3 years was causing the problem. Web service WSA called web service WSB using a dynamic URL: "http://localhost/WSB/WSB.asmx".
When I changed "localhost" to the name of the machine that both web services are on, it worked. When I changed "localhost" to "appserver", which is the string just below "localhost" in my System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts
When I use "localhost", I get a 404 error, and the error I get indicates that instead of looking in the directory which is defined for the application: C:\WebStuff\WSB, IIS is looking in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\WSB.
What is going on here? I am assuming that the application WSA, or at least the Web Service Proxy, had not been recompiled for over a year, and by refreshing the web service reference, I cause that recompile. But, the URL is not compiled in, it is specified at runtime.
Thanks,
David
Have yo uenabled virtual servers in IIS??
ASKER
No. These web services are located on the default web site.
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ASKER
Hmm. Well, now that you mention it... there is another web site defined called localhost. Perhaps what happened was that someone enabled it and caused my problem. If I understand virtual servers correctly, this site would get all messages referencing localhost, using the host header mechanism. But, how could it just pop up as a problem.
i am running off to ASPNET Connections for a week, so I'll look back into this in a week. Thanks for your ideas!
David
i am running off to ASPNET Connections for a week, so I'll look back into this in a week. Thanks for your ideas!
David
ASKER
I haven't had time to test this, but I am fairly confident that manav_mathur's hypothesis is correct. So, let's close this!
Thank you!
David
Thank you!
David