Cannot Publish Web Service

Question

User1453549677 posted

I am, for the first time, trying to Publish my
Web Service to IIS. I am using VS2015.

On the first Publish entry screen, I filled out:

Publish method: Web Deploy
Server: USER\SQLEXPRESS
Site name: WebServiceTest2 (the name of the project)
User name: dave
Password: ********
Destination URL: http://localhost:58079/WebServiceTest2

On another page, I entered "Data Source=USER\SQLEXPRESS;User ID=User\David;Password=********" for ApplicationDbContext


When I hit the Validate Connection button, I get the error that "Invalid URI, the hostname
could not be parsed".

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

User283571144 posted

Hi drl,

When I hit the Validate Connection button, I get the error that "Invalid URI, the hostname
could not be parsed".

Can anyone help?

According to your publish setting and error message, I guess you type the wrong message when you create the publish profile.

Since I don't know how you set your IIS and your IIS website application name, I create a test WCF application and publish it to IIS. 

I suggest you could refer to my publish step:

1.Create a IIS web site:

Remember the site name and port.

2.Publish the application:

Best Regards,

Brando