Can a Silverlight 2 enabled web page be managed from an Apache server? (I'm not actually interested in doing this but trying to understand Silverlight 2 a bit more.)
Assuming that I have IIS6 and Server 2003 what are the .NET version requirements to host a web site with Silverlight 2? Are .NET 3.0 and 3.5 required on the server? My thinking is not because this is a client side technology.
The system requirements for Microsoft Silverlight and associated technologies are listed below.
* Windows
o Operating System: Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
o Intel® Pentium® III 450MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)
o 128MB of RAM
* Mac OS
o Operating System: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 or above
o Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
o 128MB of RAM
* Linux. For the system requirements, please refer to the Mono Project's Moonlight Web site.
Since Silverlight is a browser technology, it is server-agnostic and can be hosted on a variety of server platforms: LAMP, UNIX, and IIS. You don't have to install .NET or any other Microsoft software on the server.
The only configuration required on the web server is to register the MIME types for content being served. If not already registered, you'll have to add following entries.
There are three MIME types required:
Here are some instructions how to do that for Apache and IIS.
Needless to say, some features such as WMS Streaming rely on a server supporting them.
If your server can serve the XAP files, there should be know problem hosting Silverlight in any server you want. Silverlight is a client technology. Your server just sends it to the browser and it's up to the client to do anything with it.
Apart from mime types there should not be a dependency on a particular server technology.
With newer IIS versions, mime types have been locked down more so you need to add an entry for a .rar file (example). It may be the case that a server admin might customize the mime configuration and prevent a .xap file from being downloaded correctly.