Open Source Software for ASPs?

PsychoKodiac wonders: "I am querying the Slashdot community for help concerning ASP pages. I am currently looking for a solution to create and serve ASP content off of my own computer for the time being. I have been referred to mono_mod and SharpDevelop but I am having a difficult time finding guides or references for using these two Open Source products together. I am attracted to them due to the lack of funds needed to use them. I am hoping some one may be able to refer me to guides or perhaps an alternative to these two products if sufficient guides are not present due to the fact that mono_mod and SharpDevelop are still in development."

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Help with ASP.NET

[quamaretto]

It sounds like what you need is just a testing environment for ASP.NET code, and some basic instructions. I messed around with this a few weeks ago, so I know where you're at.

If so, you don't really need Apache/mod_mono; just use XSP, which is just an ASP.NET server written in C# by the Mono project. It may not be as fast, but you can test away with it.

Your toolbox on your local computer should probably be Mono, mcs (C# compiler), MonoDevelop (Based on SharpDevelop), XSP, and the ASP.NET examples for Mono. These are all provided by the Windows, OS X and Linux packages on go-mono.com. If you're using debian, though, you can get them as seperate packages.

Once you've got all that, copy the ASP.NET demos into your home directory, then go to that directory and run XSP (in debian, the command is just 'xsp') and take a look at the examples.

You can change or create .aspx files directly and XSP will compile them for you when you visit them; but compiling libraries and code behind files requires a command along the lines of "mcs -t:library -o CodeBehind.dll CodeBehind.cs" or something.

I hope that gets you started.