No, I’m not talking about Mono, but native calls to the Microsoft .NET Framework. From Apache. I had that idea quite some time ago, but there was no mod_reroute_to_aspwpexe.dll or something like that to pull the trick. There is now! No more excuses to use IIS on your Windows-machine, Apache can do the .NET trick as well. Nicely handing over all .NET-calls (via mod_aspdotnet) to the .NET-workerprocess, keeping managed (.NET) and unmanaged (Apache) code separate.
Read all about this important module here.
I find it strange that this project did not get more attention. I want Apache, but not being able to “run” .NET stopped me from using it. I will now try to switch to Apache, since it gives me more freedom to use programs designed for LAMP. A lot of them just don’t work under IIS, since they rely on .htaccess or other internal Apache features.
If anybody knows of a good configuration tool for Apache, please let me know.