vNext on Apache webserver

I'm happy to see there are plenty of us trying to get vnext up and running outside Windows environment:)

Of course you are right about kestrel. It will probably end up as a simple web server just like it works right now in the node.js Hello World tutorial. You can try to use it as a production environment by running it in the background Running K Kestrel in the background on a webserver and then pass requests to kestrel by Apache Proxy

VirtualHost example proxying requests to kestrel started on *:5004

<VirtualHost *:80>ServerName example.com:80ProxyRequests On<Proxy *>Order deny,allowAllow from all</Proxy>ProxyPreserveHost OffProxyPass / http://localhost:5004ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5004</VirtualHost>

But I do not recommend above solution. There are some issue with kestrel that prevents you to send an output outside tty and therefore you can't run it at startup with a startup script. So the website you've started will last as long as your server stays online :)

What I do recommend is to use Docker. It's kind of a wrapper for ASP.NET that is being supported by Microsoft. You could make a better use of that in this stage.

Here's more info

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/01/14/running-asp-net-5-applications-in-linux-containers-with-docker.aspx