mod-mono strangeness

[Geoffrey L. Wright]

For you mono gurus out there:

Just installed mono on my shiny new Ubuntu box.

(And as an aside -- wow!  What a distro.  It's Debian without the
suffering...)

All goes very well.  I started with Warty dist-upgraded to Hoary in
order to access more recent mono packages.  But I seem to have run into
a bit of a snag with mod-mono.  I can't tell if I'm just being dense or
if I've run into a package problem.

Mono seems to work fine.  I've installed it, created the obligatory
"Hello World" app, and am even running a few nifty mono apps including
Tomboy and MonoDevelop.

I can also create an asp.net file ("hello.aspx") and view it running
xps.  File looks like this:

---

<%@ Page language="C#" %>
<%
Response.Write ("Hello Mono!");
%>

---

That works fine.  Problem comes when I try to use mod-mono.  I read the
directions that come with the mono-apache-server package and define the
app like so:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/mono-server-admin.conf add
--path=/home/gwright/MonoTest --app=/HelloWorld 

This runs without error.

Now I try to take a look by going to the following URL:

http://localhost/HelloWorld/hello.aspx

And when I do I receive the following error:

---

Server error in '/MonoTesting' application

________________________________________________________________________
Cannot find '/HelloWorld/hello.aspx'.
Description: Error processing request. 

Error Message: HTTP 404. Cannot find '/HelloWorld/hello.aspx'.

---

My guess is that I'm just being a dunderhead here.  I've read the
directions and this all looks by-the-book.  I've looks through the
apache log and I get no obvious help there.  The error does not produce
any log entry -- however if I try to look at the application sans index
file I do see the following:

[Wed Nov 24 14:33:26 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index
forbidden by rule: /home/gwright/MonoTest/

Note that I've tried seemingly endless permissions permutations on the
files and that doesn't seem to make any difference.

Any cleaver Ubuntu / mono person out there have any thoughts?


Thanks,

Geoff