Ben on June 30, 2006 at 11:44 am said:

I was in a slight brain fog when I said I had it working. We don’t, and never have.
What I was looking at was my browser trying to display the contents of the file, not the http://localhost version of the file.
What we get now is an offer to display the file, or save it to disk, if we display, we get another offer to display or save to disk.
Looking at the apache2 log, we see the following;
[Fri Jun 30 15:55:22 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Jun 30 15:55:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) mod_mono/1.1.10 configured — resuming normal operations
Another mod-mono-server with the same arguments is already running.

I can not find where the other server is started from.
I’m sorry to say that we gave up. After a week of full time working on the problem, I simply ran out of time. I loaded WindowsXP and started IIS, after registering the dll we needed, it worked. Total time, about 40 minutes.
I will continue to monitor this web page from time to time and look at getting mod-mono going again in the future when its clear that things have changed, but for now, the apt-get install method is not working for me.
Thanks for your time.

Ben

I have exactly the same problem :(

I can not find where the other server is started from.
I’m sorry to say that we gave up. After a week of full time working on the problem, I simply ran out of time. I loaded WindowsXP and started IIS, after registering the dll we needed, it worked. Total time, about 40 minutes.
I will continue to monitor this web page from time to time and look at getting mod-mono going again in the future when its clear that things have changed, but for now, the apt-get install method is not working for me.
Thanks for your time.

Ben

http://www.mono-project.com/Mod_mono This site seems to imply that its pretty straight forward to get working. The interesting thing is that what they tell you to put in the httpd.conf is a little flawed as some of it is put in the /etc/apache2/mods-avliable/mod-mono.conf file. If you do put it in both, apache2 is not happy. Also, they claim that “a bunch of sample ASP.NET pages and web services were installed too.”. Well, they are not. So, I tried putting the path in that pointed to my project, it changed the error, but still did not work.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mono-devel/2005-February/000369.html This site has some helpful information about permissions and mod-mono.

mod_mono apache2 configuration Really hard to read though, but some very helpful information, again, though, its dated and so Im not sure it applies to 2006’s version of things.

http://www.apacheworld.org/modmono/ Again, old, but really good helpful stuff to give you some background to what you are trying to do and how it might work.

http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2004-May/020728.html Long read, but fantastic stuff.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11205.html Its 2004 stuff, but fits in with what you have read.

http://www.go-mono.com/archive/xsp-0.10.html Nice and to the point, but yet again, its old.

So, they are some of the better pages I found. The reason I put them here is because this page you are reading is about the only uptodate one I could find on how to install this package in Ubuntu, so this background information needs to be here, in one place.
I was about to give up and reformat the hdd and install windows and IIS when a friend asked me if I had tried a different version of Linux. I was running a fresh install of Edubuntu (dapper), we both agreed that it should not make any difference, but it was worth a go.
I installed Kubuntu 6.06 (dapper) and repeated this web page instructions and it pretty much works now.
No errors, the page is served, but its all mangled, all the text is squashed into one line, the image is missing and its tag is displayed instead.
Close, much closer, but its hard to say where to go from here. We are using .NET 1.1 framework, so I have been careful to follow this HowTo for the 1.1 version of mod-mono.

I hope this this information will both help someone else, and in a few days will generate some help for us here (if the boss knew how much time I had spent on this, he would freak!)

Thanks.

Ben.

Come back and share with us what you learn in the meanwhile by googling and from the forums.

Ben.