1. Applications define appdomain boundaries - each application runs in a separate appdomain so that the types it uses are kept separate from other applications running within the same process (mod-mono-server.exe and under MS.NET: aspnet_wp.exe).
2. It is possible to extend mod-mono-server.exe to accept wildcards for application names. This way automated hosting would be possible. For example you can map each directory to a separate application: /var/users/user1/ - would be app1 /var/users/user2/ - would be app2 ... /var/users/userN/ - would be appN I think that a patch like this would be relatively easy to write and very useful. Jarek ----- Original Message ----- From: "mc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:10 PM Subject: [Mono-list] asp.net and virtual hosting > Hi all, > > Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question.... > > I am a newbie to mono and .NET..in fact I don't know much about ASP.NET. I > have a doubt which really annoys me. > > Why is it a must to keep the asp.net pages in a so-called 'application'? I > don't really understand what's meant by an application exactly...coz I am > used to writing php/perl CGIs, and seems that they don't have such concept. > > This idea annoys me because my apache is configured to serve mass virtual > hosts dynamically. Usually for the perl/php case, I just need to map *.pl > *.php to their respective handler. But for the asp.net (or maybe even the > JSP as well?) I need to setup applications to handle the pages. Why is it > necessary to have applications? It sounds to me that it would be quite > troublesome to setup so many applications on the web server.... > > By the way, would that imply that it is not sensible/possible to provide > asp.net hosting service to a lot of users on a shared server if the > 'application' restriction must apply? coz I might need to create thousands > of applications for them, which could add a lot of work load to me, and > causing the httpd.conf to grow very very big. > > Could anyone kindly give me some guidance on this matter? > I'd appreciate your help!! > > > Best regards > mc. > > P.S.: sorry for my poor english :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
