How do I set up Mercurial and hgweb on IIS?

Question

I\'ve been looking all over for decent instructions on how to get hgweb working on IIS but I haven\'t found much of worth.

There\'s this \"step by step\" on the Merc

Answer 1

I've been fighting with this setup for mercurial 1.7.2 for the past week or so, I had to do things slightly differently than the above articles do in order to get it working.

Posting here because google kept bringing me back here....

Full instructions posted here

I followed a combination of these instructions and these (in the source)

The main differences are that I had to do the "pure python" install of mercurial otherwise it would complain about missing dlls, and I found it was important to use the "python installers" for pywin and isapi-wsgi. (maybe this is obvious to experienced python developers, but I'm a python newbie so it was news to me)

Hope this helps somebody and I'm not just making stuff up (I might be, like i said, python newbie)