Apache and mod_mono not playing well together

Question

I'm trying to get Mono to work on CentOS 5, however haven't had much success so far. This is what I did:

> yum install mono-web
> yum install xsp
> yum install mod_mono
> echo ":CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:" > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

Ensured that the following line is present in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

Include conf.d/*.conf

Ensured that /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_mono.conf exists and looks like this:

<IfModule !mod_mono.c>
    LoadModule mono_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_mono.so

    AddType application/x-asp-net .aspx
    AddType application/x-asp-net .asmx
    AddType application/x-asp-net .ashx
    AddType application/x-asp-net .asax
    AddType application/x-asp-net .ascx
    AddType application/x-asp-net .soap
    AddType application/x-asp-net .rem
    AddType application/x-asp-net .axd
    AddType application/x-asp-net .cs
    AddType application/x-asp-net .config
    AddType application/x-asp-net .Config
    AddType application/x-asp-net .dll
    DirectoryIndex index.aspx
    DirectoryIndex default.aspx
    DirectoryIndex Default.aspx

    <Location /mono-ctrl>
        SetHandler mono-ctrl
    </Location>
</IfModule>

Created /etc/httpd/conf.d/mono-vhost.conf and inserted the following:

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    Alias /demo /usr/local/lib/xsp/test
    MonoApplications "/demo:/usr/local/lib/xsp/test"
    MonoServerPath /usr/bin/mod-mono-server2

    <Location /demo>
        SetHandler mono
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

And finally:

> apachectl restart

Then I browsed to http://my.server.ip.address/demo/index.aspx, expecting to see an ASPx page; instead my browser prompted me to download that file. There is nothing in the Apache error log.

I've got other websites running on this box via PHP and they work perfectly, so I'm pretty sure it's just mod_mono that's weird, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the problem is. If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be most appreciated.

Answer 1

Eventually got it working with the help of the following tutorial:

http://blog.palehorse.net/2008/11/06/my-adventures-installing-mono-20-on-centos-4-to-work-with-apache-via-mod_mono/

Although it's for CentOS 4 it works just as well on CentOS 5.x. :)