Hi,

I'm trying to install mojoPortal on a Linux server with a mono/mod_mono configuration but get an Error 500 at once when I try to load the Setup page.

OS: Gentoo Linux

DB: Mysql

mojo: 2.4.0.8

NET: 4.5

Web Server: Apache-2.2.29 mono-3.12, mod_mono-3.12, xsp-latest from git (3.0.11)

Mono server seem to work or at least I can run the test pages successfully, but when I try to load my.site.com/Setup/ I get an Error 500 and this message:

Exception during TraceManager initialization:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: The section <system.webServer> is defined more than once in the same configuration file. (/var/www/mono/Web.config line 1002)

I leave out the rest as obviously looks like a configuration file bug or? I'm very new to ASP.NET and I cannot really tell if the above is valid or not i.e if mojo or mono is at fault. When I remove the first <system.webServer> section, starting on line 990, I get a bit further but not far and I don't know if next error is due to the removed config code or if it's a real valid error:

Application Exception

System.TypeLoadException
Could not load type 'mojoPortal.Web.MonoCompilationSection, mojoPortal.Web'.

Description: HTTP 500.Error processing request.

Details: Non-web exception. Exception origin (name of application or object): mscorlib.

Exception stack trace:

at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Type:internal_from_name (string,bool,bool) at System.Type.GetType (System.String typeName, Boolean throwOnError) [0x00011] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/corlib/System/Type.cs:681 at Mono.Web.Util.SettingsMapping.get_MapperType () [0x00011] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/Mono.Web.Util/SettingsMapping.cs:65 at Mono.Web.Util.SettingsMapping.MapSection (System.Object input, System.Type type) [0x00021] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/Mono.Web.Util/SettingsMapping.cs:96 at Mono.Web.Util.SettingsMappingManager.MapSection (System.Object input, System.Type type) [0x0004b] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/Mono.Web.Util/SettingsMappingManager.cs:182 at Mono.Web.Util.SettingsMappingManager.MapSection (System.Object input) [0x00026] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/Mono.Web.Util/SettingsMappingManager.cs:161 at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.GetSection (System.String sectionName, System.String path, System.Web.HttpContext context) [0x0020a] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:536 at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.GetSection (System.String sectionName, System.String path) [0x00000] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:436 at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.GetWebApplicationSection (System.String sectionName) [0x0002c] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:693 at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies () [0x0004d] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:1090 at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CallPreStartMethods () [0x00013] in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/mono-3.12.0/work/mono-3.12.0/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Compilation/BuildManager.cs:547

Well, not the best first experience with mojoPortal but I'm not ready to give it up yet if someone can help to cast some light on what's going on?

Thanks,

Joakim

Gosh! I couldn't find anything about that reading through your site... but I understand the situation, although, Mono has made some real progress the latest years I believe, which is why I myself decided to give it a go, again. I do all my desktop work and programming on Windows, but have my business server on Linux since many years as I did find Windows too unreliable when I set it up almost 20 years ago.

So, am I in to a dead end here, again, or is this lack of NET/Mono compatibility with mojo something that one could possible be programming around in a sensible way? I mean, did you make a conscious breakage somewhere or is it more like you simple stopped bother about if a change would work with Mono or not?

As I'm looking at some future development of my online services and I had hoped to bridge the web part of my Linux server to sync with my desktop activity/programming on Windows by using an ASP.NET cms instead of my current one built on a stack of Drupal and WordPress in PHP. Among the alternatives I have come across so far, mojoPortal looked the most promising, both in regards of running on mod_mono and as a framework as such, so could you give me your sane judgement on if this is something that could be worked around with reasonable efforts? I have a time perspective of about 1-1 1/2 years when I would hope to deploy my new web service.

 Thanks,

Joakim

Ok thanks Joe,

Mono apparently has just branched for next release, which I think will be the first in the 4.0 series (3.12 now). So I will revisit this after they have released, but yes I know there is of course also the option to try out a hosted site.

I decided to take it over to Dev forum anyhow

https://www.mojoportal.com/Forums/Thread.aspx?pageid=5&t=13039~1#post53778

Unfortunately no way to edit post or I would have cleaned up and put the referencing url above.