Monday, October 25, 2010

ASP.NET on Mac OS X Snow Leopard at one fell swoop using mod_mono

Enable Apache first by ticking the checkbox for Web Sharing(System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing)




Type 127.0.0.1 in browser's address bar, then it should show:




Install gettext first: https://gist.github.com/1647940


Install Mono, get it at: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

Verify on Terminal if you have installed Mono...

mono -V

...should show this:
Mono JIT compiler version 2.10.9 (tarball Mon May  7 20:25:51 EDT 2012)
Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Novell, Inc, Xamarin, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
 TLS:           normal
 SIGSEGV:       normal
 Notification:  kqueue
 Architecture:  x86
 Disabled:      none
 Misc:          debugger softdebug 
 LLVM:          yes(2.9svn-mono)
 GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC)


Paste this in your terminal(the next swoop will still have the effect of sudo(i.e. no need to re-enter password)) : 
sudo mv /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.html.en /Library/WebServer/Documents/x_index.html.en

And this(so that makes it two swoop ;-)) :
mkdir ~/swoop
cd ~/swoop
sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/pkg-config /usr/bin/pkg-config
curl -O http://origin-download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-2.10.9.tar.bz2
tar xzf mono-2.10.9.tar.bz2
cd mono-2.10.9
./configure
make 
sudo make install
sudo sh -c "echo '\n\nInclude /etc/apache2/mod_mono.conf' >> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf"
echo "<center><img src='PoweredByMacOSXLarge.gif'><br><% int a = 7 * 6;%><%=a%> <%=new System.Random().Next()%></center>" > /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.aspx 
sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
echo 'Done'





Then refresh the 127.0.0.1 in your browser, you shall be able to see the the answer to life, the universe and everything








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  1. oscar_vicenteJune 2, 2011 at 7:37 AM
    I would like to know how to run an aspx app with this.... I have mono develop, but when click RUN it wont run it over apache
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  2. IEnableMuchJune 2, 2011 at 8:08 AM
    Configure a virtual directory on Apache to point at your project's path http://www.ienablemuch.com/2010/10/configuring-virtual-directory-for.html

    If your code changes in MonoDecelop don't immediately take effect in Apache, just restart Apache.

    I don't know how to point the Apache's web root to other directory(mono web project for example) yet, but if found it I'll share it to you
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  3. oscar_vicenteJune 6, 2011 at 7:50 AM
    Thanks, i got it working now
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  4. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 9:43 AM
    Thanks for this post. One thing worth adding is that a C compiler is needed on your system (e.g. Xcode).
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    1. IEnableMuchFebruary 8, 2012 at 10:54 PM
      When you upgrade to Lion, and you cannot start the Web Sharing, update your mod_mono to the latest one

      http://www.ienablemuch.com/2012/01/web-sharing-not-working-with-modmono.html
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  5. Darrell BookerFebruary 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM
    So I followed this directions exactly(only difference is using latest version of mod_mono).  I can get the powered by Mac .aspx page to load.  my problem is when I try to navigate to another project in a subfolder of the same directory I get the following message: 

     path attribute must be a relative virtual path. It cannot start with any of ' ' '.' '/' or '\'.


    The project runs fine in Visual Studio or on a production windows server.

    Here is the line in web.config it is referring to


     
    And y help would be great! I am one step away from ditching Visual Stuidio and Windows for good!
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