Mono has a fully functional implementation of ASP.NET. This includes full support for ASP.NET Web Forms and Web Services. This essentially means that more or less any ASP.NET application that you have developed using with the .NET Framework will work with Mono. Obviously there might be changes needed, such as data access changes, removal of any
reliance on .NET Framework BCL types that are not implemented in Mono yet, and also the removal of any code that makes
use of platform invoke and so on. At this stage the ASP.NET support in Mono can be considered as excellent and a lot of
publicly available web applications already make use of Mono’s ASP.NET support.
when using ASP.NET with Mono you have two options as regards which web server to host your ASP.NET applications that is XSP and Apache we are using here XSP.
XSP
XSP is a “light-weight web server” capable of hosting and serving ASP.NET applications. It is written using C#, making extensive use of the classes in the System.Web namespace.XSP web server runs on both the Mono runtime and also on the .NET runtime.
Now we are going to take a look how to install XPS and mono for ASP.NET applications and testing this setup
First thing is you need to install mono
Install mono in Debian
If you want to install mono in your debian system you need to run the following command
#apt-get install mono mono-gmcs mono-gac mono-utils monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol
You can can see in this screen which will install all the required packages
Install mono in Ubuntu
If you want to install mono in your Debian system you need to run the following command
sudo apt-get install mono mono-gmcs mono-gac mono-utils monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol
Install XSP Web server in Debian
If you want to install ASP.NET2.0 version use the following command
#apt-get install mono-xsp2 mono-xsp2-base asp.net2-examples
If you want to install ASP.NET1.0 version use the following command
#apt-get install mono-xsp mono-xsp-base asp.net-examples
This will install all the required development environment and sample applications
Install XSP Web server in Ubuntu
If you want to install ASP.NET2.0 version use the following command
sudo apt-get install mono-xsp2 mono-xsp2-base asp.net2-examples
If you want to install ASP.NET1.0 version use the following command
sudo apt-get install mono-xsp mono-xsp-base asp.net-examples
This will install all the required development environment and sample applications for ASP.NET
Test ASP.NET Applications
We have already installed sample applications
If you want to run ASP.NET 2.0 application you need to go to /usr/share/asp.net2-demos/ run the following command
#xsp2
This will start the XSP with ASP.Net 2.0 application
xsp2
Listening on port: 8080 (non-secure)
Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
Root directory: /usr/share/asp.net2-demos
Hit Return to stop the server.
Application_Start
Now you need to point your web browser to http://localhost:8080/
You should seen the following screen
