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Not able to deploy wcf web service from my machine to dev server

I have created a wcf web site project in Visual Studio 2008 and a Windows project that consumes that web service on my machine. I want to serve this web service from our development box but get an error when I try to create a Service Reference to that from my Windows project consumer.

The project that works in on my machine. I had added a Service Reference to the Windows project called wcfHelloMay18. When I r-click the Service References/wcfHelloMay18 and look at configure the Address that is displayed is http :// localhost:60593/Service1.svc. I can consume the web service from the Windows project fine.

I want to serve up this web service from our development box at http://123.123.12.1 . (The website at this address serves up just fine) But I keep getting the error that I put here in the code window.

Here is what I did in order to try to get the web service to serve from the dev box: I copied the files from my machine to the root dev box website (when I had the files in an App_Code dir , I got a Forbidden error when trying to Add Service Reference from the Windows app.)
      IService1.cs, Service1.svc, Service1.svc.cs
      The Service1.svc file has this in it.
            ServiceHost Language="C#"
            Debug="true" Service="wcfHelloWorld.Service1"
            CodeBehind="Service1.svc.cs"

and copied the following from web.config on my machine to the web.config on the dev box.
       <system.serviceModel>
       <services>
       <service name="wcfHelloWorld.Service1"
behaviorConfiguration="wcfHelloWorld.Service1Behavior">

<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="wcfHelloWorld.IService1">
</endpoint>

       <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>

       </service>
       </services>
       <behaviors>

       <serviceBehaviors>
       <behavior name="wcfHelloWorld.Service1Behavior">
       <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
       <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
       </behavior>
       </serviceBehaviors>
       </behaviors>
       </system.serviceModel>

Thank you in advance for your advice on what I should do so that I can create a Service Reference to the web service on the dev box.

Here are some things I tried.
      - I tried to IE to http://123.123.12.1/Service1.svc
            Error: The type 'wcfHelloWorld.Service1', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found.
      - I moved the files out of the App_Code dir and deleted the dir
      - added an address to endpoint in IGP6 web.config like this
       <endpoint address="http://123.123.12.1/AppCode" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="wcfHelloWorld.IService1">

- commented out mex endpoint in IGP6 web.config
            <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange"/>

- Did 
       <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>

The Error:
The HTML document does not contain Web service discovery information.
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://123.123.12.1.
 
The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8). If using a custom encoder, be sure that the IsContentTypeSupported method is implemented properly. The first 819 bytes of the response were: '
					
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
					
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head><title>
					
</title></head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="default.aspx" id="form1">
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUJNjUxNDcwNzM5ZGT3zyGithsw49HE9tyqIIroGKQcjg==" />
					
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTVALIDATION" id="__EVENTVALIDATION" value="/wEWAgL/2Z6dBwKzmeWHCA/WyJT1GsI0d6cFEwzQUXdMTU8h" />
<div>
this is default.asp on IGP6, the pdsDemo website
<br /><br /><br />
					    
<input type="submit" name="cmd1" value="cmd1" id="cmd1" />
					    
<br /><br /><br />
<span id="Label1">Label</span>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
'.
If the service is defined in the current solution, try building the solution and adding the service reference again.

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pdschuller

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I think this boils down to the Visual Studio 2008 web service discovery wizard not being able to find the web service on the dev box. Because:
- the error that the wizard throws indicates that it is looking at my default.aspx file, and
- when I try to pull up http://123.123.12.1/Service1.svc in the browser I get an error. Service1.svc has this in it: Service="wcfHelloWorld.Service1" The error says: The type 'wcfHelloWorld.Service1', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found.

I am attaching the web.config that is on the dev box. Thanks again.
Webconfig.txt

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