I am developing an .Net 4.5.1 MVC5 application in Visual Studio 2013 on Windows.
Now I want to know, if it is possible to run this application on Linux ( Ubuntu 12.04 )? Would it be possible to use OWIN?
Owin can be run self hosted which means no IIS which is a start see here
Use OWIN to Self-Host ASP.NET Web API
Then to also help see this post about deploying to a mono instance on heroku