XSP 0.11, mod_mono 0.8

Hello everyone,

New source code releases of XSP, the Mono ASP.NET server, and mod_mono are available.

XSP is both a stand-alone ASP.NET server and mod-mono-server, the companion of mod_mono, which is a module that enables ASP.NET pages for Apache.

For this release, we have tried to make Apache configuration easier. As a result you will need to re-read the INSTALL file in mod_mono and update your Apache configuration, as existing installations will break.

The highlights of this release:

• You don't need to run mod-mono-server.exe. It can be launched by mod_mono now.
• New Apache configuration directives. Only one is mandatory when the module starts the server process (mod-mono-server).

There are descriptions of the new configuration directives for mod_mono as well as sample configuration in the mentioned INSTALL file.

XSP 0.11 fixes a bug present in 0.10 version that made Web Services unusable under apache.

Availability

Source code:

• http://www.go-mono.com/archive/xsp-0.11.tar.gz
• http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mod_mono-0.8.tar.gz

On CVS the tags are: XSP_0_11, MOD_MONO_0_8

Quick source code installation:

xsp:

	
    $ tar xzf xsp-0.11.tar.gz
    $ cd xsp-0.11
    $ ./configure
    $ make install
	

mod_mono:

	
    $ tar xzf mod_mono-0.8.tar.gz
    $ cd mod_mono-0.8
    $ ./configure
    $ make install
	

If you have installed mono in a prefix different from /usr/local, say /home/jdoe/mono you should pass the argument --prefix=/home/jdoe/mono when running ./configure.

Typical mod_mono configuration

This samples assume that you have mono and mod-mono-server installed in /usr prefix. If you installed it in another prefix, take a look at the documentation on configuration directives for mod_mono.

In Apache 1.3 you will end up with something like:

	
      LoadModule mono_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libmod_mono.so
      AddModule mod_mono.c
      Alias /mono "/usr/share/doc/xsp/test"
      MonoApplications "/mono:/usr/share/doc/xsp/test"
      <Directory /usr/share/doc/xsp/test>
              SetHandler mono
              <IfModule mod_dir.c>
                    DirectoryIndex index.aspx
              </IfModule>
      </Directory>
      

With Apache 2.0 you will have something like:

	
      LoadModule mono_module modules/libmod_mono.so
      Alias /mono "/usr/share/doc/xsp/test"
      MonoApplications "/mono:/usr/share/doc/xsp/test"
      <Directory /usr/share/doc/xsp/test>
              SetHandler mono
      </Directory>
      

or like:

	
      LoadModule mono_module modules/libmod_mono.so
      Alias /mono "/usr/share/doc/xsp/test"
      MonoApplications "/mono:/usr/share/doc/xsp/test"
      <Location /mono>
              SetHandler mono
      </Location>
      

Note that the LoadModule and AddModule lines are added automatically when you run make install.

This configuration will run /usr/bin/mod-mono-server with the same user/group as apache.

The people behind this release

The following developers contributed to this release:

Gonzalo Paniagua, Jan Jaros, Martin Willemoes Hansen

Big thanks to all the people filing bug reports in bugzilla and trying this out.