How can I install WordPress on my Windows Server as the documentation and video tutorials show the process using Web Platform Installer which is now retired by Microsoft since December 2022 and WordPress, MySQL, etc cannot be found on the Web Store after the retirement of Web Platform Installer.
Could anyone please help me on this?
I tried Web Platform Installer WebPI v5.1 x64 but no any products like WordPress, MySQL were found. So, none of the documentation and tutorials on the web worked for me.
I am expecting some solution to this.
Video tutorials, step by step documentation or any thing.
Current scenario is that I have this macos laptop (Apple M1 Pro processor) in which I was working for the last 8 months on react under visual studio code. Now, in a new project I need to leverage some API's and a lot of JSON responses and I wanted to debug the code but I saw that it is just not possible. I came across this old article ASP.NET Mono Setup
but I still feel that I won't be able to have the same level of developing experience like in a windows machine.
So, question is, can I (and if the answer if yes) debug an asp.net webforms app on visual studio 2022 for mac? If not, I would need to ask for a laptop replacement.
Thanks in advance!
Only the .net core runtimes are platform neutral.
But, the .net 2-4.8 runtimes are not.
One MIGHT be able to play and mess around with mono, but at the end of the day, I suggest you go with a VM (virtual machine),and run windows.
In other words, you don't need a new laptop, but just use a VM and install windows on that VM.
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For a developer with a Java background, I am interested in exploring software development using the ASP.NET tools/platform as well.
Java web applications (.jsp and servlets) can run on many server platforms.
Question: Will a .NET web application be able to run in a Linux based server? Considering the scenario of not being able to use a Windows server for hosting a web app.
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
It depends what specific .NET technologies you're using. The Mono Project provides an Apache module (mod_mono) for running ASP.NET sites, and from what I gather it works well.
Mono doesn't support all the .NET APIs, though - notably WPF (and possibly WCF too, I can't remember) - but it does provide good support for much else of the framework.
If you're starting from scratch and particularly want to target non-Windows servers, then ensuring your project works with Mono would be a good goal to aim for. However, if you need particular APIs or language features that are not supported by Mono, then you will need to use a Windows server for deployment. It's a design-time/architectural choice that should make up front.
You might want to consider this guide that helps Windows developers port their code to Mono/Linux:
Guide: Porting ASP.NET Applications - Mono
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.
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
Since the technologies evolve and this question is top ranked in google, we need to include beyond the mono the new asp.net core, which is a complete rewrite of the asp.net to run for production in Linux and Windows and for development for Linux, Windows and Mac:
You can develop and run your ASP.NET Core apps cross-platform on
Windows, Mac and Linux. ASP.NET Core is open source at GitHub.
Yes we can. get familiar with Mono Project and read this article to get started.
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.
You can use Mono to run ASP.NET applications on Apache/Linux, however it has a limited subset of what you can do under Windows. As for "they" saying Windows is more vulnerable to attack - it's not true. IIS has had less security problems over the last couple of years that Apache, but in either case it's all down to the administration of the boxes - both OSes can be easily secured. These days the attack points are not the OS or web server software, but the applications themselves.
dotnet is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.
This may be a great start to support Linux.
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.
There is the Mono Project from Novell that will allow you to run ASP.Net on Apache.
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
The Mono project is your best option. However, it has a lot of pitfalls (like incomplete API support in some areas), and it's legally gray (people like Richard Stallman have derided the use of Mono because of the possibility of Microsoft coming down on Mono by using its patent rights, but that's another story).
Anyway, Apache supports .NET/Mono through a module, but the last time I checked the version supplied with Debian, it gave Perl language support only; I can't say if it's changed since, perhaps someone else can correct me there.
So far i've only been using webforms. But me and my friend would like to try out the MVC architecture. Some questions:
Is there any downside with the free version of visual studio VS professional? I can get the professional version from work but is it worth the effort?
I would like to use Entity Framework and the latest version of MVC + the razor view engine. Does this need to be downloaded separatly?
As far as versioning is concerned; is tortoise SVN suitable for a small project on 2 persons?
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
SVN is ok as a repository in my experience. If you are using Visual Studio there is a decent plugin so you can use it from within the IDE, rather than from within Windows. If I am using SVN, it is what I use! More details here.
MVC3 can be downloaded here
Entity Framework can be installed via Nuget (PM> Install-Package EntityFramework ) or a quick google will show the download locations (I think there is version 4.3 and a CTP of version 5)
Free version will work, not sure if there are any differences.
Yes you need to download it seperately
Why wouldn;t it be?
Not that I know of. It's a good way to start. I know earlier versions didn't allow plugins but not sure about the latest versions.
EF will come with the .NET SDK (VS) so no need there. You can get MVC3 from the Web Platform Installer (http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3)
I use Tortoise SVN on a team of 4 people with no issues at all. Just make sure you all know good rules for source control management.
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I want to run an ASP.NET site on Apache Server instead of IIS.
I've Googled a lot, but didn't find satisfactory answers. I only found out that we can use something called 'Mono' - a third party API for doing this. Can anyone explain the basics - for example, do we need to install install .NET on that server? What if it is a UNIX server?
Any detailed explanation, or links, if provided would be greatly appreciated.
Mono is exactly what you're looking for, actually. It's an extremely mature and stable product that's been providing .NET Framework support on open systems for a very long time. mod_mono for Apache is specifically what you need.
To answer your questions:
The .NET Framework itself won't install on non-Windows machines. Mono is its replacement. So you don't need to install the .NET Framework from Microsoft.
Unix, Linux, etc. Shouldn't be a problem.
Mono is an open-source version of the .Net Framework and can be integrated into Apache as described here:
http://www.mono-project.com/ASP.NET
I believe this is your only option.
Here is a tutorial about mod_mono + apache configuration:
http://www.mono-project.com/Mod_mono
AFAIK mod_mono + Apache is only working with a linux machine, not a windows machine.
It is not possible to install .net framework on linux.