使用XSP4在Monodevelop中调试ASP.NET MVC应用

Question

I see from around the web that this question has been asked before elsewhere but I haven't found anything that fixes this problem in my case.

When I try to debug an ASP.NET MVC App from MonoDevelop 4.2.3 on Ubuntu, it fails with the error message

Could not launch ASP.NET web server.The xsp4 web server could not be found. Please ensure that it is installed.

I have xsp4 installed already.

It was working previously, but went awry when I upgraded my Mono version to 3.2.1. In order to try to fix it, I have tried checking out, building, and installing the xsp source code from git.

Now, if I run:

xsp4 --version

It shows xsp4 version 3.0.0.0 is installed, and I can start it from the command line. MonoDevelop is still complaining though. If I do a which xsp4, it points to a script file containing this:

exec /usr/bin/mono $MONO_OPTIONS "/usr/local/lib/mono/4.5/xsp4.exe" "$@"

Which looks pretty good to me.

Does anyone know how I can get this to work in MonoDevelop? Or perhaps a way to configure MonoDevelop to debug through another web server?

Answer 1

I managed to get this working by copying the xsp4.exe and Mono.WebServer2.dll files to my application bin folder. I guess MonoDevelop probes the application bin folder as one of the potential locations for the web server executables. This works- the server starts as expected and the debugger attaches properly.