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We're developping an MVC .Net website supposed to run on linux. It worked fine with mod_mono but we're forbidden to actually use mod_mono on the production server for performance matters. Also, we use mono-fastcgi-server2 and mod_fcgid.

So when disabling mod_mono, the home page still works fine but any request like /controller/action ends up with a 404 error.

I wonder if we can even run our MVC .Net website without the mod_mono ?

This is my first question on this website and I am not very familiar with apache and the modules. Thanks for any help.

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Probably not.

mod-mono is the Mono project's ASP.NET module for Apache. Without it, there's nothing in Apache to interpret any ASP.NET content. So, by extension, if you're not allowed to run mod-mono on your Apache server then you're not allowed to run ASP.NET on your Apache server.

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Thanks, but the home page works, and it has ASP.Net code in it, doesn't that mean we actually can run ASP.net code ? –  Victor GH Jun 11 '13 at 15:02
    
@user2474965: What's the code that actually works? What is the server-side code and what renders client-side? –  David Jun 11 '13 at 15:03
    
So far our project is just initialized from a visual studio template. The home page displays two tabs, "Home" and "About", and a message like "Welcome on MVC.Net" that is set by the controller to the view. I feel like the problem lies in dealing with the urls like /controller/action, like a rewriting or rerouting issue, but have no idea where to start. For instance, the "About" button doesn't work for it is an action of the Home controller. –  Victor GH Jun 11 '13 at 15:06
    
@user2474965: I suspect that this is coincidentally serving some static HTML from the default of the site. Though it's hard to be certain without seeing anything. If the server-side code genuinely says something like @Html.ActionLink() and that's becoming an actual a tag on the client side, then you're right that something is interpreting the ASP.NET content. I'd be very curious as to what that something is. –  David Jun 11 '13 at 15:12
    
Then I have to make sure whether it is some static HTML as you suggest or .Net code actually being ran. I guess if i'm writing some c# code with string and it operations and displaying the result, that means the c# code is actually being interpreted. –  Victor GH Jun 11 '13 at 15:16

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