Orchard CMS on Mono

Question

This question may be slightly subjective, but I'm not sure where else it is better suited.

I used Orchard in a number of projects where the server was based on Windows Server - integrated with AD, SQL, etc. to provide an MVC-based portal - for example, steal candy from a baby!

I recently studied MonoTouch and installed Orchard on OSX in ModMono at http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Running-Orchard-on-Mono .

Everything seems to be all right and fast, but I'm not sure whether to return it to a commercial enterprise. I have always used MySQL or MSSQL as a database, while my current installation works PostgreSQL - something new (which is always good).

Does anyone know of any sites that use Orchard for Mono, with ModMono (Apache2) and PostgreSQL?

I plan to deploy to a cloud server running CentOS and Mono to continue testing before moving on, but think this might be an interesting way to explore.

Answer 1

I can’t say that I know of any sites that Orchard runs on Mono, but I know many sites that use Mono, Postgresql and CentOS. But if it works on a Mac running Modmono and Postgresql, then it should work on CentOS.

The only problems you may encounter on Linux are case sensitivity. If you encounter case sensitivity issues when you try to use Orchard on Linux, you can set your site to use Mono IOMAP temporarily while you fix case sensitivity problems.

This is a very reliable and economical stack. It may take a little research and problem solving to get up and running initially, but once it works, it should be very stable.

I'm currently nearing the end of the migration of an application that will use Mono, Postgresql and Ubuntu running on Amazon EC2. I find Ubuntu better than CentOS when it comes to Mono, as it is much easier to configure and seems to be better supported. You can use the badgerports repositories located here if you want to try the latest version of Mono on Ubuntu.