Asp.net web applications in non-IIS server?

Question

I would like to know whether asp.net applications can host in any non-IIS web/application server like Tomcat/JBoss/Glassfish?

Answer 1

If you want to deploy a JEE application (WAR, EAR) directly to IIS, the answer is no.

IIS can however act as front-server for a JEE server (Tomcat/JBoss/Glassfish) using the IIS connector. This means you need to have a running installation of Tomcat/JBoss/Glassfish; this will not be listening for connections from the outside world. Requests from the outside will hit IIS, which will forward them to Tomcat/JBoss/Glassfish.