[BlueOnyx:05432] Re: Mono

Sun Sep 19 18:15:41 -05 2010

Thanks Bob,

I will roll this out to one of my boxes this week sometime.

James

On 20 September 2010 05:54, Bob Noordam <b.noordam at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  Op 18-9-2010 5:52, James Darbyshire schreef:
> > Further to my previous email, has anyone installed mono on their
> > BlueOnyx boxes?
> >
> > Now I am not too keen on installing additions to the bare-bones BO
> > boxes (Just in case I need to migrate from one box to another),
> > but I'm looking for a way to host ASPX pages using BO, and migrating
> > from my CentOS barebones installs.
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
>
>
>
> Here's a step by step to get Mono up and running on BlueOnyx, It
> basicaly comes down to simply yum-installing the thing, because it all
> is there in the official centos-extras repo, which is ready for use on
> BO. (beats the old-deploy-from-source-and-mess-up-the-box anytime)
>
> If you want i can supply a download for an oracle virtualbox machine
> with  a clean patched up BO and mono toy with, and test potential issues
> with other software. Then again - it's  a ten minute install so
> downloading probaly isnt worth it anyway
>
> This is a base install demonstrating a console "hello world" programm
> and it's compile, and a basic web page. If you want to use one
> of the default data providers you can install them from the extras repo
> site. The MySQL extensions for .NET also work with mono altough they
> are not supported. If you are serious about developing .NET application
> for linux yourself you will want to buy Novell's extensions to visual
> studio, they allow you to roll up a complete RPM from within VS. (or do
> a simple ftp-deploy for webapps)
>
> 1)
> Setup a clean BlueOnyx from iso 5.5-20100519, Set clock back a year
> during first web run to evade the certificate warning.
> named the server test.server.com, created a vsite named test.site.com
>
> 2)
> Yum udpdated it too current, reboot to make sure all new stuff is active
>
> 3)
> Added these to my hosts file on a local system to test with;
> 192.168.3.202    test.server.com
> 192.168.3.202    test.site.com
>
> 4) Installed mono:
> yum grouinstall mono
>
>
> 5)
> Test the setup, same drill as described on the mono "getting started"
> page, put the following into a text file named hello.cs
>
> using System;
> public class HelloWorld
> {
>     static public void Main ()
>     {
>         Console.WriteLine ("Hello Mono World");
>     }
>
> }
>
>
> [root at test ~]# gmcs hello.cs
> [root at test ~]# mono hello.exe
> Hello Mono World
> [root at test ~]#
>
> 6)
> Now we have a functional base installation, on to the web integration.
>
> !! If you are even thinking of offering this commercialy, now go read
> this: http://mono-project.com/Mod_mono !!
> !! and think about what isolation level you need. The standard setup
> with apache as a frontend and a single  !!
> !! mono server running the code for all sites is used
> below                                                  !!
>
> yum install mod_mono
> yum install xps
>
>
>
> The mod_mono.conf should now be in place, check:
>
> [root at test conf.d]# pwd
> /etc/httpd/conf.d
> [root at test conf.d]# ls -l mod_m*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1243 Jul 19 20:42 mod_mono.conf
> [root at test conf.d]#
>
>
> Be-ing in conf.d, mod_mono should auto load when restarting apache, so:
> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
>
> Test the aspx by placing the following in a site, name the file
> default.aspx
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <% Response.Write("Hello web world"); %>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Keep in mind you now serve aspx to ALL vsites, if you want to control
> this site-by-site you need to take a look at the settings in
> mod_mono.conf and move them to the sites you want to enable this for.
>
>
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-- 
Regards,

James Darbyshire
jamesdarbyshire at gmail.com
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