[Mono-aspnet-list] mod_mono fails: HTTP 503, no error log

[Yves Goergen]

I have now installed mod_mono for Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.1. I didn't 
use auto configuration because it does things I can't use. Instead I 
went for the manual configuration section and added the following lines 
at the end of my otherwise working VirtualHost configuration:

MonoApplications "/monotest:/var/www/web001/monotest"
<Location /monotest>
   SetHandler mono
</Location>

Since the mentioned example application (/usr/share/doc/xsp/test) 
doesn't exist on my system, I started up Visual Studio 2013 and created 
a simple ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms application and uploaded it into my 
document root's monotest directory.

After restarting apache, I can see the following process running as the 
www-data user:

/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/mono/4.5/mod-mono-server4.exe --filename 
/tmp/.mod_mono_server4 --nonstop --appconfigdir /etc/mono-server4

It's the wrong use because I need it to be 'web001', but I think I could 
add that later - as soon as I found a description of how to do that, 
because the Mono documentation does not cover that.

When I access that site, the result is an HTTP 503 error, "Service 
Unavailable", after a few seconds. The virtual host's error log is 
empty, today's file doesn't even exist yet. The access log only contains 
a line indicating the 503 error. No other log files seem to exist for 
apache or mono.

So what did I miss to set up mod_mono correctly? The documentation seems 
largely outdated, mentioning .NET 1.1 and 2.0 profiles. I seem to have 
4.5 running which is the most current version.

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Yves Goergen
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