How to configure a single WCF Service to have multiple HTTP and HTTPS endpoints?

Question

What I am trying to do is get a SINGLE WCF Service to work in the development environment which is the HTTP scheme, and, also, have the SAME service work in the production e

Answer 1

If you're using Visual Studio 2010 and Web Application Project Deployment you can use the Web.config Transformation Syntax to point your service endpoint's bindingConfiguration to an https enabled binding configuration.

For me, I figured out I only had to replace two elements in the Web.config file. The endpoint's bindingConfiguration attribute and serviceMetadata's httpsGetEnabled should be set to true.

Here's the Web.config, in its default (debug) configuration:

    
    
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Here's the Web.Release.config transformation file

Here's what my bindings look like, but they are pretty standard. notice the names that are used above:

Here's a link to more about Web.config transformations:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326(VS.100).aspx