Running ASP.NET Core 2.0 Via Mono

If your target is Linux, you can use the following command.

Here, I use OSX for an example. And, it's the same as Linux. The only difference between them is of libuv files. Each OS has its own type.

OS	Libuv file after publishing
Windows	libuv.dll
Linux	libuv.so
OSX	libuv.dylib

Step 5

Copy all the files in the Publish folder on your MAC or Linux computer. Before the following steps, you need to install Mono first. Please follow the below link to install if you have not installed yet .

http://www.mono-project.com/download/

Step 6

Let's run it via Mono.

Unlucky, we find some errors from the terminal after we run the above command. We need to remove a DLL named System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll from the Publish folder.

After removing, it runs well.

Step 7

Open your browser and enter the listening URL http://localhost:5000. You will find that everything is good.

We can use the lsof command to find out who is listening to the port 5000.

lsof -i :5000

For comparison, I run a new ASP.NET Core web application via .NET Core CLI.

At last, turn to Linux and run this application as well. Here, I use CentOS for example.

As you can see, both OSX and Linux are the same and easy to run via Mono.

If you want to host your web application this way in Linux , follow the official document Set up a hosting environment for ASP.NET Core on Linux with Nginx, and deploy to it and edit the ExecStart in your service file.

The following is an example service file for our application:

Summary

This article has introduced another way to run our ASP.NET Core web application via Mono. I hope this will help you.