title: URL and mapRoute for local web service
body: <p>I am new to web service and I have a pre-existing web service in mvc.  </p>
  
  <p>I am trying to host it locally.  But whenever I tried to access it ex: <code>http://localhost:11021/MyService</code> it would throw the HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden.</p>
  
  <p>I figured I need the full path to access it but am having trouble finding it.</p>
  
  <p>I noticed that the map route is registered as follow</p>
  
  <pre><code>routes.MapRoute(
  "Ping", // Route name
  "Service/Ping/{typeId}", // URL with parameters
  new { controller = "Home", action = "Ping" } // Parameter defaults
  );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Naively I tried something like <code>http://localhost:11021/MyService/Ping</code> and it did not work.
  What should the full url path be if I want to access the service and the ping service method?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>