Hello!

I am trying to develop a proof-of-concept HelloWorld kind of thing that is basically an interpreter of server pages. The challenge is to have the same codebase for the interpreter being called from an Apache module and an IIS handler.

So, calling this "thing" (written in C#) from an IIS 7.0 handler is easy (also C#) but to my knowledge an Apache module can only be written in C, so I'll have to call C# code from C - is this possible?

The idea was to have this interpreter of sorts work in both IIS and Apache, like PHP :D

Any thoughts? Thanks for your time and reply!

Assuming you are talking windows only, then yes, php can load .Net components:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dotnet.php

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

You mis-understood my question: the thing is to have something PHP-like in terms of working with Apache and IIS, but definitely not PHP.

It's basically a matter of calling .NET from C.

I don't know C, so can't really answer your question any further. Are you able to call COM objects, because you could expose your .Net classes as COM objects perhaps?

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Hmm... I don't think COM would be multi-platform. Thanks for your help, in any case

If you want cross-platform then you are looking at Mono.

Try looking into something like this: http://www.mono-project.com/Mod_mono

If this doesn't answer you question then I suggest finding a forum devoted to Mono, as you are far more likely to find your answer there.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/