[Mono-list] MVC hosting

[Abe Gillespie]

I'm happily running an MVC2 site publicly on Mono / Apache.  I assure you it
works.

Simply go through the setup steps for a WebForms site and then point it at
your MVC site.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Doug <douglas.linder at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are indeed, many websites about running mvc via xsp2.
>
> Most of them suggest (as a first step) seeing the example in
> /usr/share/asp.net2-demos/ to see how to do this.
>
> *The problem is that these examples are not MVC applications. *
>
> They are just aspx files. And that seems to be all xsp can handle...
>
> Indeed, if you jump into the source archive for xsp2, that's all you'll
> find there too in the tests folder.
>
> Am I wrong? If someone can show me what I'm doing wrong I'm happy to admit
> that.
>
> No matter how hard I look at it though, mod_mono and xsp (ie. the fast cgi
> impl) only seem to be able to handle code-behind files, not wsgi style web
> apps.
>
> ~
> Doug.
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Abe Gillespie <abe.gillespie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Mono runs ASP.Net MVC apps just fine.  The sources are here:
>>
>> http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/
>>
>> XSP is at the very bottom.  Note that you'll probably want mod_mono as
>> well if you're running your site through Apache.  Setup and running XSP /
>> mod_mono is very Googlable; see what you can turn up.
>>
>> Note, that if you compiled MonoDevelop from source, there may be some
>> extra steps involved to point MD at XSP and have it run / debug your MVC
>> sites properly.  I don't know, I never compile MD from source.
>>
>> -Abe
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Doug <douglas.linder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I'm posting this here in the hopes the mono-list is slightly more
>>> populated that the asp sublist.
>>>
>>> Basically the issue I have is this:
>>>
>>> I can compile an MVC 2.0 application under mono (great) but I can't
>>> actually run it.
>>>
>>> xsp2 appears to only serve old-style apps where there is a 1-1 mapping
>>> between the file system and files, with each .aspx file having an associated
>>> .aspx.cs code-behind file. This is not how MVC apps work.
>>>
>>> MVC apps should have their urls parsed and run according to the routing
>>> information defined for that application; typically the
>>> /{controller}/{action} url is mapped to the function {action} in the class
>>> Controller{controller} in the project. Under no circumstances should the
>>> webserver randomly start trying to load aspx files from purely from the url
>>> pattern.
>>>
>>> I've seen a few vague posts about something called 'xsp4' that is somehow
>>> capable of doing this (for example this page mentions it with regard to
>>> using razor:
>>> http://twistedcode.net/blog/post/2011/02/03/Orchard-begins-to-work-under-Mono.aspx),
>>> and is possibly packaged as part of the mono develop package, but I can't
>>> find any concrete information on where to actually get this.
>>>
>>> Also, if it's part of mono develop, that's not particularly useful for,
>>> for example, actually hosting a web app that uses MVC on a real server.
>>>
>>> Is this part of the git repo somewhere?
>>>
>>> I build mono 2.10 from source on my server, but I couldn't find the
>>> sources to xsp anywhere.
>>>
>>> help~
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Doug.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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