HTTP could not register URL http://+:8000/HelloWCF/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace

Question

I\'m a beginner in WCF, but trying to improve my experience. And on the first step I faced the problem. I created the simplest WCF service. The listing of code: (all the cod

Answer 1

I closed Visual studio IDE and reopened it by right clicking on the Visual Studio icon and saying "Run as Administrator", Then when I ran the host , It worked!!!

Answer 2

You need some Administrator privilege to your account if your machine in local area network then you apply some administrator privilege to your User else you should start ide as Administrator...

Answer 3

While I was able to solve this problem in one computer following the other users solutions, the command netsh didn't solve the issue in one of my machines and even though the current user had administrator rights I was still getting the "HTTP could not register URL.... Your process does not have access rights to this namespace". So I'm sharing my solution in case you still don't get it to work with the other solutions too.

After also trying to give write permissions to the user in the physical directory of my website and getting no success, I finally decided trying to change IIS settings.

As the images below show, I configured the Physical Path Credentials of my website to connect as an specifc user, which was an admin account with DOMAIN\username and password, and this was enough to make the error disapear.