Running ASP.Net on a Linux based server

Answer 1

For ASP.NET on Linux, check out Mono.

That said, thousands of sites run on Windows Server without any issues. A poorly-configured server with any OS will be vulnerable; Linux won't save you from a poor admin.

So I guess my "best practice" for deplying an ASP.NET app would be to use Windows Server 2008 (likely Web edition). And hire a good administrator.

Answer 2

Now you can publish ASP.NET 5 app to Docker on Linux with Visual Studio. See the below post from Scott Haselman

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PublishingAnASPNET5AppToDockerOnLinuxWithVisualStudio.aspx

Answer 3

Now a days .Net is run in multiple platforms,like linux ,Mac os etc. but mono is not fully platform independent ,Because to deploy .NET in another OS required third party software.so it is not like java platform independent.

Mono is running in different platform ,because of JIT is there in different os.

Mono is not fully success in moonlight(silver light in .NET) .Not only Research is going on.

Mono uses XSP2 server or apache . some of the big companies are using this project,Some of the robotic project are also running on mono.

For more details http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page.

Answer 4

So I know this is an older question but I think it could stand an updated answer.

Microsoft has officially released asp.net vnext and its open source and deploy-able to both Linux and Mac. Its all still pretty new but does rely on the latest builds of mono and thus currently needs you to compile the mono-framework but in time I suspect that it will be easier to access as various linux distros release updated versions of mono. This is a how to setup guide

This information may be somewhat volatile and with updates is due to change.

Update ASP.NET CORE 11/10/2017

• asp.net vnext is now known as asp.net core.
• asp.net core is being treated as a high priority in Microsoft due in part to its use with microservice architecture and docker and container technologies
• It has become much more compatible with existing .net libraries due to .net standard 2.0.
• It performs well when compared to other technology stacks such as go and node.js

Answer 5

I can speak from experience. Even if your ASP.net website only uses .NET libraries supported by Mono you are going to have a hard time getting it to run if its anything beyond Hello World.

You won't have to re-write much code but you will spend hours/days/weeks dealing with little issues with mod_mono/xsp/apache configuration and file permissions and error handling and all the little things that go into a large website. (Be prepared to spend a lot of time asking questions on serverfault :) )

The problem is that a lot of people don't use Mono for ASP.net websites and so there aren't as many people reporting bugs so a lot of things that are minor bugs go un-fixed for a long time.

Answer 6

Yes we can. get familiar with Mono Project and read this article to get started.