ASP.Net MVC 2 on nginx/mono 2.8

Question

I am trying to setup ASP.Net MVC 2 application on Linux environment. I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 on VirtualBox, then installed Mono 2.8 from sources. After that I have installed nginx and configure it as recommended here. Unfortunately, FastCGI shows me standard error 500 page:

No Application Found
Unable to find a matching application for request:
Host localhost:80
Port 80
Request Path /Default.aspx
Physical Path /var/www/mvc/Default.aspx

My application is located in /var/www/mvc directory. I've tried to create some stub Default.aspx file and place it in root dir of my application, but it didn't help, same error occured. Thanks.

Answer 1

I've been doing some testing with this as well, using all ubuntu10.10 binaries. From what I can make from it, either nginx fails to pass the hostname of the mono server fails to receive it over the fastcgi protocol. Anyhow, the tutorial line:

 fastcgi-mono-server2 /applications=www.domain1.xyz:/:/var/www/www.domain1.xyz/ /socket=tcp:127.0.0.1:9000

doesn't work. Removing the hostname makes the thing work:

 fastcgi-mono-server2 /applications=/:/var/www/www.domain1.xyz/ /socket=tcp:127.0.0.1:9000

but this of course blocks the use of multiple virtual mono hosts.

Answer 2

Since you are running ASP.NET MVC 2 application you should use fastcgi-mono-server4.

Answer 3

Adding following line in /etc/nginx/fastcgi_param resolves the issue for me. It also allows to use multiple virtual hosts.

fastcgi_param HTTP_HOST $host;

Answer 4

Does your application work with xsp (xsp4 if you are using .net 4.0)? You'll want to make sure that is working before you try configuring the connection to another web server.

Does nginx know where to find mono? You most likely have a parallel install and it won't be in the default paths.

I use apache, but you may still find some of the instructions on my blog useful: http://tqcblog.com/2010/04/02/ubuntu-subversion-teamcity-mono-2-6-and-asp-net-mvc/