Exposing a custom .svc stored in /Sitefinty/Services - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 29-Aug-2012 00:00

Is it at all possible to expose a .svc file that I made living in /Sitefinity/Services?

I've tried combinations in the web.config with the location tag, but nothing seems to work...

<location path="Sitefinity/Services/X/X.svc">

<system.web>

<authorization>

<allow users="*" />

</authorization>

</system.web>

</location>

When I'm not authenticated it throws

HTTP Error 401.0 - Unauthorized

You do not have permission to view this directory or page.

...when I want to allow anon users access

Posted by Community Admin on 29-Aug-2012 00:00

I could be totally wrong about this, but I believe you need to register the service using ObjectFactory with something like:

ObjectFactory.RegisterWebService(typeof(MyService), "Sitefinity/Services/MyServices/MyService.svc");

If this is for a custom module you'd do this in the Initialize() method. Otherwise you'd need to do it on App_Start in Global.asax.

But again, this is just my assumption based on how the other modules are registered... hope this is helpful!

Posted by Community Admin on 29-Aug-2012 00:00

Well I mean the service WORKS...when I'm logged in, but not at all for anon, wont let me to that url b/c it's blocked behind /Sitefinity/

Registering it makes it public?

Posted by Community Admin on 06-Sep-2012 00:00

Hello Steve,

Yeah, this directory is protected for security reasons. If you want to expose a custom service, you should place the service here:

SitefinityRoot/Sitefinity/Public/Services

If you want to store it in the protected services folder, I'd suggest you using

SystemManager.RegisterWebService(serviceType, appRelativeUrl);

..somewhere on the application start.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Georgi
the Telerik team

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