[Mono-aspnet-list] Mono on Nginx

[Daniel J. Summers]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:43 PM, JZ <jeff at odyl.net> wrote:

>
> Is anyone hosting Mono on XSP/FastCGI/Nginx?
>
>
> http://florent.clairambault.fr/lighttpd-mono-asp-net-the-right-configuration
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> Anyone else run in to this (ScriptMethod returns 405/500 "can't POST to
> Page.aspx/MethodName") issue?
>

Yep - and it's why I, at the suggestion of someone else, am looking at
migrating back to Apache2, using the worker MPM and mod_fcgi to have Apache
spawn the Mono processes.  I'm still in the working-it-out phase.  The
problem with nginx is that, in the URL /my_service.asmx/GetCoolStuff, it's
assuming that "/GetCoolStuff" is either a file with no extension or a
directory.  Since some RFC doesn't allow for this, nginx intercepts it and
just returns a 405.  There was a patch posted to forums, but the repository
version (Ubuntu) was well past the version the patch should have been in,
and the behavior still remained.

I tried lots of different things, but the lack of a case-insensitive switch
(in nginx natively - MONO_IOMAP=all works great for the Mono piece), along
with its viewing of the entire URL (including query string) making URLs like
"image.axd?file=/App_Data/files/10/09/28/pic.jpg" fail because they match
.jpg instead of .axd, I'm pursuing the Apache solution.

Certainly post back (pardon the pun) here if you figure it out; however, the
"Apache manages the process" thing will also fix a nagging PHP-hang problem
I've had with nginx (which PHP-FPM hasn't), so unless I hit an
insurmountable roadblock, that's the route I'm heading towards.  I'm
planning on writing up how I made it work (once I have made it work), and
posting the URL to that to this list.

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