MonoAmi: Mono 2.2 Amazon EC2 Image - Hosting for ASP.Net In The Cloud

This week, the Mono team released version 2.2 of the framework (release notes).

I have created a new Amazon EC2 image with Mono 2.2 installed on Amazon's Fedora 8 image.

This new image supersedes the previous versions I created for 1.9.1 and 2.0.

Here's is a link to this image's page in the EC2 resource centre.

The EC2 AMI and manifest path are:

ami-dc8760b5
nonhostile-mono2-2-i386/image.manifest.xml

Once you start this instance, you can browse to its public DNS name to see the XSP test sites.

This instance is intended to serve web applications or run console based applications or services; it does not have any kind of graphical interface.

• Amazon’s Fedora 8 base image (ami-5647a33f v1.08)
• Latest updates via yum
• Apache 2.2.9 installed via yum
• Apache and mod_mono are configured to serve the XSP 'test' files from the web site's root in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (at the bottom)

The following have been compiled and installed from the Mono 2.2 stable sources with the --prefix=/usr

• mono-2.2
• mono-basic-2.2
• mod_mono-2.2
• libgdiplus-2.2
• xsp-2.2

The sample ASP.Net files for 1.0 and 2.0 are installed at this root:

/usr/lib/xsp/test

The Apache config (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) file has been configured to serve an ASP.Net application from this location.

You can edit the Apache configuration file using vim. Use Ctrl-D in vim to page-scroll down.

vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

# Set mono as the handler
SetHandler mono

# Configure a 'root' web application to run from root
MonoApplications root "/:/usr/lib/xsp/test"
MonoServerPath root /usr/bin/mod-mono-server2
<Location />
  MonoSetServerAlias root
</Location>

To serve your own ASP.Net applications from this instance, you need to store the files somewhere, for example, /mnt/MyApp, then modify the MonoApplications directive at the bottom of the Apache configuration file.

MonoApplications root "/:/mnt/MyApp"

Good luck and happy Mono developing!

• Mono AMI: documentation at Amazon community directory
• Mono 2.2 Release Notes
• Mono: The Mono homestead sporting a new look
• mod_mono: Documentation on configuring mod_mono
• VIM Shortcuts: For help using vim
• Twitter: My twitter link if you want to keep in touch

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