WCF ServiceHost access rights

Question

I get the following error when going through the WCF tutorial.

HTTP could not register URL http://+:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service/. Your process does not have acc

Answer 1

The issue is that the URL is being blocked from being created by Windows.

Steps to fix: Run command prompt as an administrator. Add the URL to the ACL

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service user=mylocaluser