hosting or deploying existing asp.net web applications on linux

This post describes step by steps how to host or deploy existing asp.net web application on linux machine in apache tomcat server. It also describes how you can install and configure grasshopper ( developed by MainSoft.com). It's a tools which is used to convert existing asp.net application to J2EE compliant code which can run on Linux machine. It also describes how you can convert asp.net website to asp.net web application as this tool only supports web application projects in asp.net.