Cannot access WCF service remotely

Question

BACKGROUND

We have a WCF web service hosted in a Windows Service running with the basicHttpBinding

Answer 1

Try using useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress

<system.serviceModel>
  <behaviors>
    <serviceBehaviors>
      <behavior>
        <useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress />
      </behavior>
    </serviceBehaviors>
  </behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>

This will allow the service to insert the URI you used to access the service in to the metadata so the wsdl aligns. Sometimes you'll go to access http://1.2.3.4/service.svc but the metadata will reference http://localhost. Locally that's fine, but remotely that makes grabbing the endpoint information impossible. Instead, now all those localhost references will use 1.2.3.4 instead.