Running ASP.NET Applications in Debian and Ubuntu using XSP and Mono

Running ASP.NET Applications in Debian and Ubuntu using XSP and Mono

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Nov 102006

 

Mono is an open-source project providing the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Monodevelop is probably the best IDE for developing .NET applications on Linux. In order to install and use it for development, you will also need the Mono .NET runtime environment installed.

 Mono has a fully functional implementation of ASP.NET. This includes full support for ASP.NET Web Forms and Web Services. This essentially means that more or less any ASP.NET application that you have developed using with the .NET Framework will work with Mono. Obviously there might be changes needed, such as data access changes, removal of any
reliance on .NET Framework BCL types that are not implemented in Mono yet, and also the removal of any code that makes
use of platform invoke and so on. At this stage the ASP.NET support in Mono can be considered as excellent and a lot of
publicly available web applications already make use of Mono’s ASP.NET support.

when using ASP.NET with Mono you have two options as regards which web server to host your ASP.NET applications that is XSP and Apache we are using here XSP.

XSP

XSP is a “light-weight web server” capable of hosting and serving ASP.NET applications. It is written using C#, making extensive use of the classes in the System.Web namespace.XSP web server runs on both the Mono runtime and also on the .NET runtime.

Now we are going to take a look how to install XPS and mono for ASP.NET applications and testing this setup

First thing is you need to install mono

Install mono in Debian

If you want to install mono in your debian system you need to run the following command

#apt-get install mono mono-gmcs mono-gac mono-utils monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol

You can can see in this screen which will install all the required packages

Install mono in Ubuntu

If you want to install mono in your Debian system you need to run the following command

sudo apt-get install mono mono-gmcs mono-gac mono-utils monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol

Install XSP Web server in Debian

If you want to install ASP.NET2.0 version use the following command

#apt-get install mono-xsp2 mono-xsp2-base asp.net2-examples

If you want to install ASP.NET1.0 version use the following command

#apt-get install mono-xsp mono-xsp-base asp.net-examples

This will install all the required development environment and sample applications

Install XSP Web server in Ubuntu

If you want to install ASP.NET2.0 version use the following command

sudo apt-get install mono-xsp2 mono-xsp2-base asp.net2-examples

If you want to install ASP.NET1.0 version use the following command

sudo apt-get install mono-xsp mono-xsp-base asp.net-examples

This will install all the required development environment and sample applications for ASP.NET

Test ASP.NET Applications

We have already installed sample applications

If you want to run ASP.NET 2.0 application you need to go to /usr/share/asp.net2-demos/ run the following command

#xsp2

This will start the XSP with ASP.Net 2.0 application

xsp2
Listening on port: 8080 (non-secure)
Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
Root directory: /usr/share/asp.net2-demos
Hit Return to stop the server.
Application_Start

Now you need to point your web browser to http://localhost:8080/

You should seen the following screen