Launch .Net MVC5 app on Mono

Question

I am developing a .NET 4.5.1 MVC5 application in Visual Studio 2013 on Windows.

Now I want to know if this application can be run on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04)? Can I use OWIN?

Answer 1

Owin can run on its own, which means that IIS, which starts here,

Use OWIN for ASP.NET standalone web API

Then, to also see this post about deploying in a mono instance on heroku

Launch OWIN / Katana Applications on Heroku