 <p>I had the same problem and my issue was that I copied my autofac configuration from a MVC project and was registering my dependencies with <code>InstancePerRequest</code>. When I changed that to <code>InstancePerDependency</code> instead it solved the problem and <code>GetRequestLifetimeScope</code> was working.</p> <pre><code>builder.RegisterType&lt;X&gt;().As&lt;IX&gt;().InstancePerDependency(); </code></pre>