[Mono-list] successful port of MS .net application to linux/apache/mono1.1.4

[Ilya Kharmatsky]

Hi, Simon!

I want just clarify the status of FormsAuthentication - see already 
fixed bug:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73545 which should resolve 
this issue.

Thanks,
Ilya.

simon wrote:

> Ive recently successfully ported an ASP.Net application from MS .net 
> to mono-1.1.4.
>
> This application was approximately 250-300 days development, is 
> currently deployed and in production on windows server 2003, has 2 
> external interfaces and used an MS SQL server database.
> As an experiment I ported it to mono and mysql in approximately 20 
> hours, and had it running under apache on an ubuntu linux box.
>
> The application used a number of 3rd party libraries including 
> nHibernate and wilson master pages.
>
> Some of the major problems encountered during the port were;
> - trouble with mulitple cookies and the FormsAuthentication cookie 
> disappearing. - not sure what the problem was, made work around.
> - ALOT of trouble with differences in what I would call the current 
> executing path of pages and the inclusion of user controls.  It 
> appears that IIS executes pages in a different path to apache/mod_mono 
> and this causes the page directives at the top of the aspx file to be 
> incorrect.  Solution (really work around) - change ALL Server.Transfer 
> calls to Response.Redirect (whether this is a better approach anyway 
> is debatable)
> - problems with libraries compiled under MS .net framework not being 
> compatable with those compiled under mono.  I am not sure what the 
> expected compability between things compiled under mono and MS are but 
> ive found that if you can get the source for something, try and 
> compile it under mono, it will cause you less trouble in the end.
>
> Apart from that the port was successful, and relatively painless.
>
> Unfortunately this forum is not the place for me to say what the 
> application is (at this time).
>
> The next task is to find 2 identical boxes, deploy under both win2k3 
> and linux/mono and load test both to see the results.  Only problem 
> being i dont have 2 identical boxes :(
>
> Simon
>
>
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