[Mono-list] Xsp in standalone amd mod_mono

Shawn Vose svose@programmerforrent.com
Tue, 18 May 2004 10:33:03 -0400


Curious should I touch the tmp/mod_mono_server file and chmod it or it
the server creating it? Also I do notice that some numerically named
dll's are being created in my tmp.

Any suggestions would be of great help.

Regards,
Shawn Vose

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:28, Gregory Junker wrote:
> Well, for one, the mod_mono module expects to see /tmp/mod_mono_server,
> which is created by mod-mono-server.exe, not xsp.exe. If you did not chmod
> the /tmp/mod_mono_server file, you will get Service Unavailable. Best
> thing to do is script the mod-mono-server startup so that you pause for a
> couple seconds after the .exe returns, then chmod the file in the script.
> 
> Also, unless they have got mod-mono-server.exe to recognize, drop, and
> reload changed assembly DLLs, you will need to restart mod-mono-server.exe
> each time you change an assembly DLL that the server has loaded. If you
> don't, you will get some truly weird errors from your ASP.NET pages.
> 
> If you are serving ONLY ASPX pages on this server, then you don't need
> Apache at all; just set up XSP to server port 80 and off you go (akin to
> Java servlets).
> 
> HTH
> Greg
> 
> > I tried to add the --applications argument but xsp would throw an
> > exception. With respect to the two being different, this I know but I
> > would think that if xsp didnt work then most likely mod_mono would fail
> > as well since they are using the same engine. Is this not correct. I
> > would much rather get it to work as a module. The only reason I tried
> > xsp as a standalone was so I could see why mod_mono was not servicing
> > requests.
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:14, Gregory Junker wrote:
> >> Unless I missed some significant change in the past couple of weeks,
> >> you should be doing the following to start the mod_mono server:
> >>
> >>
> >> mono /usr/bin/mod-mono-server.exe --root <...> --applications
> >> <...>:<...> --nonstop &
> >>
> >>
> >> And then chmod the file so it's RW for the webserver.
> >>
> >> XSP and mod-mono-server are not exactly the same thing...
> >>
> >> Greg
> >>
> >>
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