I'll start by admiting that this is my 1st project creating a WCF service. I've got the service working under VS2012 on my local machine and now want to install it on my test web server, a win 2k8r2 box running IIS 7.5.
I've installed the .net4.5 extensions on the test server and verified that I can access the default web site.
I tried to publish from my local machine to the test server using VS2012 and get an error
"Unable to create the web site http://db-k/xmltesting'. The server does not appear to have FrontPage Server Extensions.
In the next attempt I "add an application" using the IIS management panel. In htat step when I set "binding?" and try "Test Setting" I get the error "Invalid Application path". Elsewhere I found references to this erro on msdn forums that says I can ignore this error. Trying again to "publish" from my local machine to that application reference on the test server results in the same error as before (the reference to FPSE no being available..
I've added "Network Services" account to the directories permissions list, tried again and get the same errors.
I''m assuming that I've got IIS configured incorrectly but I'm at a loss as to what I need to change/add/set. I'm also unclear as to what permissions I should have on the physical directories to allow me to publish from VS2012 to my web server.
I'm not a system admin so I need someone to spell out the details on configuring IIS for this operation.