Install mod_mono on Mac OSX

Question

I just started to develop website with mono+asp.net mvc2 on mac osx but I am quite new to mono and mac.

I have got things working from MonoDevelop. My website is running ok with XSP when I run it from MonoDevelop.

Now, I am trying to test it from Apache server, but I don’t know how to set things up. Some instruction I can found are all very old or incomplete. I tried a few of them, but none worked.

Could anyone please help me out?

Answer 1

The best way to install mod_mono on OS X is from source. To do this there are a couple steps.

First, make sure you've installed XCode (which can be found on the DVD or the 2nd CD that came with the machine or the App Store) which will provide you with gcc and the rest of the standard toolchain.

Most of the normal in-between steps can be skipped, assuming you've already installed Mono and MonoDevelop from their stable release packages. If you encounter an error later on, you'll want to install updated versions of XSP and Mono and try again.

Next, download the latest stable release of mod_mono, extract the contents of the archive (by double clicking on the icon) and follow steps 1, 2 & 3 in the INSTALL file, and you should be good to go. This entire process took about ~5 minutes to get up and running :)