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A howto install Mono, xsp and mod_mono on SMEServer
==Mono on SME Server 7==

Mono is a cross platform, open source .NET development framework. See http://mono-project.com

With Mono you can run ASP.NET on many platforms including SMEServer.
Mono is also required to use iFolder http://www.ifolder.com

''Note to Windows users:''
Use PuTTY to get acces to your SMEServer Box, login as root.
Execute the steps hereunder by copy-pasting them to PuTTY - to paste in PuTTY right click with the mouse (not working under mc!).
To navigate around your server use MidnightComander - just type mc at the commandline.

== Installation ==

To setup a repository where yum can get Mono from issue following:

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set mono repository \
Name 'Mono for rhel-4-i386 (stable)' \
BaseURL 'http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/rhel-4-i386/' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck no \
Visible yes \
status disabled


This is equivalent to adding a .repo file, which doesn't work on SMEServer. The info above comes from
http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/rhel-4-i386/mono.repo - the source of Mono.
It is the only place I have found xsp and mod_mono required to run ASP.NET pages.

install mono, xsp and mod_mono:

yum --enablerepo=mono install mono-complete xsp mod_mono


Restart the system:

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot



Create a file in the SMEServer custom templates dir (create dir first)

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Create file:
pico 20LoadModule80mod_mono

Add following to the file:

#Template for mod_mono
LoadModule mono_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_mono.so
AddType application/x-asp-net .aspx
AddType application/x-asp-net .asmx
AddType application/x-asp-net .ashx
AddType application/x-asp-net .asax
AddType application/x-asp-net .ascx
AddType application/x-asp-net .soap
AddType application/x-asp-net .rem
AddType application/x-asp-net .axd
AddType application/x-asp-net .cs
AddType application/x-asp-net .config
AddType application/x-asp-net .Config
AddType application/x-asp-net .dll
DirectoryIndex index.aspx
DirectoryIndex Default.aspx
DirectoryIndex default.aspx

MonoServerPath /usr/bin/mod-mono-server2

Save and exit (ctrl-x)


Reparse the templates:

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

restart the webserver

/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

You are done! Add a .aspx file to an iBay and point your browser to it.
You may have authorization issues if your ASP.NET code reads or writes files
- but that is another matter solved by granting some rights :)






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