Comments on: Installing OpenSuse 11.2 with Mono 2.6.1 and Apache Using Text Mode Configuration – Porting to Mono Part 1 of 3

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:03:43 +0000

@Cyril Also, just wanted to mention. Some of my more recent posts refer to Ubuntu and Fedora. Fedora 15 is packaged with 2.10.2. Ubuntu is not, but it's very easy to install it with a script if you're comfortable compiling projects in linux. It's just a little inconvenient to maintain as new releases are published.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:58:32 +0000

Thanks @Cyril! My apologizies. This post is quite old now. I've since learned that there are more ways to get recent mono installed to OpenSuse (always indicated on the mono-project.com Downloads page. Unfortunately the latest 2.10.5 (as of the time of this comment) isn't yet available in official packages. Also regarding the MVC project you tested, is that MVC 1.0? One of the unwritten caveats is that this post was intended for MVC 1.0 since that was the only version available. I've more recently found that MVC2 is supported by 2.8, and MVC3 requires at least 2.10.2. Full MVC3 support including DataAnnotations model validation seemed to appear in 2.10.5 (the current). You can try a few things: 1. First try just updating your mono install by doing, "zypper update". 2. You can try copying local any assemblies that report missing like this one. (This is the case in MVC2 and 3) System.IdentityModel resembles a core library, which makes me curious. I'm not familiar with that one specifically. In visual studio under the properties for that reference, just indicate Copy Local for the build action and rebuild/publish your solution. 3. Try to zypper install mono-mvc and restart your apache server. (it may be named slightly different. You can zypper search mono | grep mvc to find the real name if it's different. Good luck! I hope that helps!

By: Cyril

Cyril — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:51:47 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for the great tutorial. I’ve followed it almost per line but I am getting the following error when I launch a default sample web site built with VS 2010.

Could not load file or assembly ‘System.IdentityModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Did I miss something ?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:09:03 +0000

@Jake Scott Great! Glad you got it working! Yeah, tweaking that virtual host config becomes more common when you start playing with the later versions of Mono or custom installs. On Ubuntu & Fedora, I setup a script that installs to a completely different path prefix; so it also requires setting the correct environment variables too.

By: Jake Scott

Jake Scott — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:55:15 +0000

Thanks for the article it was really very helpful.

One problem I had was that I used the mod_mono configuration tool – Which is useful but it defaults to setting the MonoServer path to:

MonoServerPath Loot “/usr/bin/mod-mono-server2″

But I built my application against .NET 4.0 so I needed to update the path to:

MonoServerPath Loot “/usr/bin/mod-mono-server4″

And everything worked

By: Nathan Bridgewater

Nathan Bridgewater — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:50:19 +0000

@Konstantin Thanks! Great to hear you got it working! Yeah, you know I've been copying the Mvc assembly myself and forgot to write it in here. Good catch! I've been also copying the System.Web.Routing assembly as well.

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:47 +0000

Nathan i needed to copy also the the System.Web.Mvc.dll reference into the bin directory in order for MVC to work! I hope this helps the others

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:56:13 +0000

Dude you have made my day. Seriously this is a great article exactly what i needed. I have tried Zend framework before and it is also great, but i always wanted to have asp.net on Linux, and you are also right i am using this for a small web-shop. I do not want to pay money to MS for running Windows and IIS if I already have couple of sites running on redhat build on Zend. Anyway i was not paying even if i had to. In eastern Europe nobody does So at least now i am legal lol lol lol

By: nathan

nathan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:20:37 +0000

@Arwen Great! Glad to hear it! For this, I was using Virtual PC only because I had it installed and I wanted to try out the new Windows 7 one. It was pretty nit-picky when I installed this though. I usually use VirtualBox or VMWare if VirtualPC doesn't work. I have used VMWare Server for production before, which worked out really well. I'd suggest trying out different options to see what works best on your host machine. Depending on your hardware, you may be able to take advantage of the virtualization optimizations there which could help speed things up.

By: Arwen

Arwen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:54:43 +0000

One more thing. I am running OpenSUSE 11.2 in a VirtualBox instance and it is really slow. Did you install to the host on a machine or are you using virtualization? I’m thinking it is so slow because of a problem with it running specifically in VirtualBox. If you have any ideas…