Love working with .Net? Love Open Source? Well then you should already know about the Mono project that allows you to run .Net applications on Apache. In any case that isn’t important right now. What’s important is this article that shows you how to install and configure it so you can stop reading about it and start playing with it.

Following this procedure gives you the most basic configuration profile needed to deploy ASP.Net applications under an alternate infrastructure to that offered by Microsoft. Even though Mono was only recently released and has yet to incorporate some advanced features offered by its Microsoft counterpart, it offers a viable alternative to deploying .Net applications on existing production systems using Linux and the Apache Web server, guaranteeing the robustness and stability of the aforementioned platforms.

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