Running .Net and ASP.Net applications

The SheevaPlug can run ASP.Net websites via Mono.

Installing Mono

On the default Ubuntu install, use apt to install Mono:

 root@debian:/tmp# apt-get install mono-2.0-devel

Create a Hello World program:

 root@debian:/tmp# echo 'class X {static void Main() {System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); }}' > helloworld.cs

Compile and run it

 root@debian:/tmp# gmcs2 helloworld.cs 
 root@debian:/tmp# mono helloworld.exe 
 Hello World

Getting ASP.Net applications to work

To get ASP.Net applications to run is not as straightforward. The default Ubuntu install needs to be slightly reconfigured. First, /tmp is not world writable. So change that:

 root@debian:/tmp# chmod 7777 /tmp

and Mono requires /usr/bin/gmcs in addition to /usr/bin/gmcs, so just symlink it:

 root@debian:/tmp# ln -s /usr/bin/gmcs2 /usr/bin/gmcs2

then you can follow the Ubuntu Instructions[1] to configure Apache and mod_mono.