[Mono-list] mod_mono in a shared hosting envionment
Joshua Tauberer
tauberer at for.net
Wed Nov 23 21:38:03 EST 2005
Jesse Pasichnyk wrote:
> There have been several posts about this sort of thing in the past (from me
> and others), and I think the consensus is its probably better to run
> standalone xsp servers per site.
You can run XSPs and then proxy them with Apache, as you say, but
alternatively you can run mod-mono-server's and not have to configure
proxying. Remember that mod_mono is just a light-weight thing that
spawns mod-mono-server.exe to run the mono environment. Normally
mod_mono starts the mod-mono-server, but you can turn that off to start
it yourself under a different user, or on another machine. (See the man
page for mod-mono-server.exe, I think.)
Also, mod-mono-server runs as the same user as apache (if it is started
automatically by mod_mono), which at least on Fedora systems is the
apache user, who has no access to do anything malicious.
> believe people also argue against mod_mono because that would tie the GC
> instance to the apache server in some sorts
Since the mono runtime is in a separate process, there's no interaction
like that.
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