title: WSDL URL for a WCF Service (basicHttpBinding) hosted inside a Windows Service
body: <p>I am hosting a WCF service in a Windows Service on one of our servers. After making it work in basicHttpBinding and building a test client in .NET (which finally worked) I went along and try to access it from PHP using the SoapClient class. The final consumer will be a PHP site so I need to make it consumable in PHP.</p>
  
  <p>I got stumped when I had to enter the WSDL url in the constructor of the SoapClient class in the PHP code. Where is the WSDL? All I have is :</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService" rel="noreferrer">http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService</a> and
  <a href="http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService/mex" rel="noreferrer">http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService/mex</a></p>
  
  <p>None of these do not expose WSDL.</p>
  
  <p>Being a newbie in WCF I might have asked a dumb thing (or I might have a wrong assumption somewhere). Please be gentle :D</p>
  
  <p>And no, <a href="http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService?wsdl" rel="noreferrer">http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService?wsdl</a> does not show anything different than <a href="http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService" rel="noreferrer">http://172.27.7.123:8000/WordService</a> :(</p>
  
  <p>Am I forced to host it in IIS? Am I forced to use a regular WebService?</p>