WCF service startup error "This collection already contains an address with scheme http"

In .Net 4, you can use the multipleSiteBindingsEnabled option:

<system.serviceModel>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true">
    </serviceHostingEnvironment>
</system.serviceModel>

Then, you won't have to specify each address.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.servicehostingenvironment.multiplesitebindingsenabled.aspx

Summary,

Code solution: Here

Configuration solutions: Here

With the help of Mike Chaliy, I found some solutions on how to do this through code. Because this issue is going to affect pretty much all projects we deploy to a live environment I held out for a purely configuration solution. I eventually found one which details how to do it in .net 3.0 and .net 3.5.

Taken from the site, below is an example of how to alter your applications web config:

<system.serviceModel>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment>
        <baseAddressPrefixFilters>
            <add prefix="net.tcp://payroll.myorg.com:8000"/>
            <add prefix="http://shipping.myorg.com:9000"/>
        </baseAddressPrefixFilters>
    </serviceHostingEnvironment>
</system.serviceModel>

In the above example, net.tcp://payroll.myorg.com:8000 and http://shipping.myorg.com:9000 are the only base addresses, for their respective schemes, which will be allowed to be passed through. The baseAddressPrefixFilter does not support any wildcards .

The baseAddresses supplied by IIS may have addresses bound to other schemes not present in baseAddressPrefixFilter list. These addresses will not be filtered out.

Dns solution (untested): I think that if you created a new dns entry specific to your web application, added a new web site, and gave it a single host header matching the dns entry, you would mitigate this issue altogether, and would not have to write custom code or add prefixes to your web.config file.

Did you see this - http://kb.discountasp.net/KB/a799/error-accessing-wcf-service-this-collection-already.aspx

You can resolve this error by changing the web.config file.

With ASP.NET 4.0, add the following lines to your web.config:

<system.serviceModel> 
     <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" /> 
</system.serviceModel>

With ASP.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, add the following lines to your web.config:

<system.serviceModel> 
     <serviceHostingEnvironment> 
          <baseAddressPrefixFilters> 
               <add prefix="http://www.YourHostedDomainName.com"/> 
          </baseAddressPrefixFilters> 
     </serviceHostingEnvironment> 
</system.serviceModel>

In my case root cause of this issue was multiple http bindings defined at parent web site i.e. InetMgr->Sites->Mysite->properties->EditBindings. I deleted one http binding which was not required and problem got resolved.

WCF service startup error "This collection already contains an address with scheme http"

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