This guide explains how to install the latest version of Mono on Debian (lenny) (with Lighttpd). Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime
1. Installing required packages
apt-get install build-essential bison pkg-config libglib2.0-dev bzip2 gawk libpng12-dev libexif-dev libx11-dev libjpeg62-dev libfontconfig1-dev libtiff4-dev libgif-dev lighttpd libxrender-dev
2. Downloading and unpacking required Mono sources
Goto http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/ and download:
- mono-1.9.tar.bz2
- libgdiplus-1.9.tar.bz2
- xsp-1.9.tar.bz2
to /usr/src on your system.
Unpack them:
cd /usr/src
tar jxf mono-1.9.tar.bz2
tar jxf libgdiplus-1.9.tar.bz2
tar jxf xsp-1.9.tar.bz2
3. Configuring, building and installing
First we will start with Mono itself:
cd /usr/src/mono-1.9
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install
Next libgdiplus:
cd /usr/src/libgdiplus-1.9
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install
And finally xsp:
cd /usr/src/xsp-1.9
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install
4. Configuring Lighttpd
This configuration for lighttpd allowes php to be run in parallel with mono.
FastCGI configuration:
$HTTP[“url”] !~ “\.php$” {
include “conf.d/mono.conf”fastcgi.server = (
“” => ((
“socket” => mono_shared_dir + “fastcgi-mono-server”,
“bin-path” => mono_fastcgi_server,
“bin-environment” => (
“PATH” => “/bin:/usr/bin:” + mono_dir + “bin”,
“LD_LIBRARY_PATH” => mono_dir + “lib:”,
“MONO_SHARED_DIR” => mono_shared_dir,
“MONO_FCGI_LOGLEVELS” => “Standard”,
“MONO_FCGI_LOGFILE” => mono_shared_dir + “fastcgi.log”,
“MONO_FCGI_ROOT” => mono_fcgi_root,
“MONO_FCGI_APPLICATIONS” => mono_fcgi_applications
),
“max-procs” => 1,
“check-local” => “disable”))
)}
conf.d/mono.conf:
# Add index.aspx and default.aspx to the list of files to check when a
# directory is requested.
index-file.names += ( “index.aspx”, “default.aspx”, “Default.aspx” )### The directory that contains your Mono installation.
# The “bin” subdir will be added to the PATH and the “lib” subdir will be
# added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
# For a typical system-wide installation on Linux, use:
var.mono_dir = “/usr/”
# For an installation in a user account (lighttpd need read/exec access):
#var.mono_dir = “/home/username/mono-1.2.6/”### A directory that is writable by the lighttpd process.
# This is where the log file, communication socket, and Mono’s .wapi folder
# will be created.
# For a typical system-wide installation on Linux, use:
var.mono_shared_dir = “/tmp/”
# For an installation in a user account (dir must exist and be writable):
#var.mono_shared_dir = “/home/username/lighttpd_scratch/”### The path to the server to launch to handle FASTCGI requests.
# For ASP.NET 1.1 support use:
#var.mono_fastcgi_server = mono_dir + “bin/” + “fastcgi-mono-server”
# For ASP.NET 2.0 support use:
var.mono_fastcgi_server = mono_dir + “bin/” + “fastcgi-mono-server2”### The root of your applications
# For apps installed under the lighttpd document root, use:
var.mono_fcgi_root = server.document-root
# For apps installed in a user account, use something like:
#var.mono_fcgi_root = “/home/username/htdocs/”### Application map
# A comma separated list of virtual directory and real directory
# for all the applications we want to manage with this server. The
# virtual and real dirs. are separated by a colon.
var.mono_fcgi_applications = “/:.”
That should do the trick, you have now enabled mono 1.9 in lighttpd and can now proceed with some asp.net development! 🙂
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