[Mono-list] Running ASP.Net 4.5 MVC Application on Mono

Tue Sep 16 19:06:52 UTC 2014

Thanks for the replies.

I did made some progress, that specific error is my xsp was quite old, I built 
it from the latest tarball on Mono's website but it is outdated, so I had to 
get it from github.

After that I got another missing method exception: 
System.Web.Routing.RouteCollection.get_AppendTrailingSlash. This method does 
not exist currently in mono (I read it's on the current github tree but not on 
releases). So obviously it's because my app was using MS assemblies.

So I installed Mono and MonoDevelop 5.1 from tarballs on a desktop. Then 
opened the solution removed all Package References and added References to the 
right assemblies on /usr/local/lib/mono/4.5 and deleted everything in the bin 
directory. It still wouldn't compile because it doesn't find the ViewBag 
property on the Controller class (I guess because it's a dynamic type and I 
guess Mono can't handle it), so I created quick custom ViewBag extension and 
it compiled but I still get the same error so I look on the bin directory and 
they're back! I don't know where MonoDevelop got them cause I deleted them 
from packages directory. So I deleted everything from the bin directory except 
for my DLL and a couple third party DLLs (everything else is in the GAC), then 
without recompiling I ran from my project directory root.

xsp4 --root . --applications /:.

now I'm getting:

System.InvalidOperationException
The view 'Index' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the 
searched locations. The following locations were searched: 
~/Views/Default/Index.aspx 
~/Views/Default/Index.ascx 
~/Views/Shared/Index.aspx 
~/Views/Shared/Index.ascx 
~/Views/Default/Index.cshtml 
~/Views/Default/Index.vbhtml 
~/Views/Shared/Index.cshtml 
~/Views/Shared/Index.vbhtml

But Views/Default/Index.cshtml is there with rwx permission for everyone. As a 
desperate move I even tried copying the View directory to my home directory in 
case it was interpreting ~ to be my home dir instead of the app root. So right 
now I'm stuck. I'm using the right case on the url. Any suggestions?

On Tuesday 16 September 2014 3:32:31 PM Martin Thwaites wrote:
> Have you made sure to remove the Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll file...
> 
> There is a tutorial somewhere about running MVC 3 on mono (which I do with
> great success).  There a few files that you need to make sure are not
> deployed as part of your application.
> 
> That said, I've not tried anything 4.5 related on mono yet.
> 
> Also, you could try compiling from git, it maybe more upto date that the
> tarball.
> 
> Hope that helps
> Martin
> On 16 Sep 2014 05:41, "Fernando Rodriguez" 
<frodriguez.developer at outlook.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get an Asp.Net 4.5 MVC app to run on mono and I'm getting 
the
> > error shown bellow (also posted here). I get the same error in apache 
using
> > mod_mono as in xsp4. I built mono, xsp, and mod_mono on the server from 
the
> > latest tarball releases (simple ./configure && make && make install). Other
> > Asp.Net applications run fine on the same server (targetting earlier
> > runtimes).
> > The server run Gentoo and I remove all mono, xsp, and mod_mono packages
> > before
> > building the source.
> >
> > I found several posts that suggest a bug in xsp (don't apply since I'm
> > using
> > latest tarball and also tried earlier versions) or mono loading the wrong
> > framework version stack trace and exception message suggest is loading the
> > right assemblies (most assemblies on the 4.5 directory are symlinks to
> > 4.0). I
> > did tried to run xsp.exe with mono ---runtime=v4.5 and it tells me it's 
not
> > available, same for 4.0 but it is available and the and the exception 
shows
> > it's using it.
> >
> > The application was built on Windows with Visual Studio but I also built 
on
> > MonoDevelop (Xamarin) on Windows to target Mono. It does not use any
> > external
> > references except for PayPal's API Library but I used this same library on
> > other applications that run on mono so that shouldn't be the problem. I'm
> > trying to setup a parallel mono environment on a Linux desktop to compile
> > it
> > on Linux to see if it makes a difference (my distro's version are really
> > outdated).
> >
> >
> > Another thing I noticed is that Visual Studio copies all the Mvc and 
Razor,
> > etc assemblies to the bin folder, if I delete them mono wines about not
> > finding
> > them even though there's Mono's implementation on the GAC (which I believe
> > are
> > built from the same source). Also in the Visual Studio generated
> > Web.config the
> > <httpRuntime> and other tags had a targetFramework="4.5" attribute, and I
> > had
> > to remove it cause mono wined about it (unrecognized attribute or 
something
> > like that). Yet the same Web.config works fine in Mono under Windows.
> >
> > I think that's all I got, suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > Exception caught during reading the configuration file:
> > System.MissingMethodException: Method not found:
> > 'System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler.Create'.
> >   at
> >
> > 
System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.System.Configuration.Internal.IInternalConfigSystem.GetSection
> > (System.String configKey) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >   at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection (System.String
> > sectionName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >   at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.get_AppSettings ()
> > [0x00000] in
> > <filename unknown>:0
> >   at Mono.WebServer.XSP.Server.get_AppSettings () [0x00000] in <filename
> > unknown>:0
> >   at Mono.WebServer.XSP.Server+ApplicationSettings..ctor () [0x00000] in
> > <filename unknown>:0
> > xsp4
> > Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
> > Root directory: /var/www/stage.fernansoft.net
> > Listening on port: 8080 (non-secure)
> > Hit Return to stop the server.
> > Missing method
> >
> > 
System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler::Create(object,object,XmlNode)
> > in assembly /usr/local/lib64/mono/4.0/System.dll, referenced in assembly
> > /usr/local/lib64/mono/4.0/System.Configuration.dll
> > Missing method
> > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager::get_AppSettings() in
> > assembly
> >
> > 
/usr/local/lib64/mono/gac/System.Configuration/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll,
> > referenced in assembly
> >
> > 
/usr/local/lib64/mono/gac/Mono.WebServer2/0.4.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/Mono.WebServer2.dll
> > Missing method
> > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager::get_AppSettings() in
> > assembly
> >
> > 
/usr/local/lib64/mono/gac/System.Configuration/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll,
> > referenced in assembly /usr/local/lib64/mono/4.0/System.Web.dll
> > Missing method
> > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager::get_AppSettings() in
> > assembly
> >
> > 
/usr/local/lib64/mono/gac/System.Configuration/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll,
> > referenced in assembly /usr/local/lib64/mono/4.0/System.Web.dll
> > Missing method
> >
> > 
System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty::.ctor(string,Type,object,TypeConverter,ConfigurationValidatorBase,ConfigurationPropertyOptions)
> > in assembly
> >
> > 
/usr/local/lib64/mono/gac/System.Configuration/4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll,
> > referenced in assembly /usr/local/lib64/mono/4.0/System.Web.dll
> >
> >
> > ---------
> > Fernando Rodriguez
> > frodriguez.developer at outlook.com
> > _______________________________________________
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> >

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Fernando Rodriguez
frodriguez.developer at outlook.com