Setup Mercurial Server in Windows Machine - Tutorials are outdated

Question

I am refering to HgWebDirStepByStep, and trying to setup it in Windows machine (Windows 7).

1. I can no longer download hgwebdir.cgi from http://www.mercurial-scm

Answer 1

By collecting information bits and bytes from every corners, I would like to summary the steps to setup mercurial server using Apache, with authentication feature.

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I install mercurial-1.9.1.win-amd64-py2.6.exe

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Add the following content to C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf

# Some comment so that you can find these settings later
ScriptAliasMatch ^/hg(.*) "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/hg/hgwebdir.cgi$1"

  Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "AuthName for Mercurial"
  AuthUserFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/hg/passwd.txt"
  
      require valid-user
  

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Create the following 4 files

C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\hg\hgwebdir.cgi (Download from http://makinggames.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/hgwebdir.txt and rename it to hgwebdir.cgi)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\hg\hgweb.config with the following content.

[paths]
dummy1 = d:/mercurial-repo/dummy1
dummy2 = d:/mercurial-repo/dummy2

c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\hg\passwd.txt (Refer to this guide http://sniptools.com/vault/windows-apache-and-htaccess-authentication)

c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\hg.htaccess (Just leave the file empty)

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Initialize repositories in

D:\mercurial-repo\dummy0
D:\mercurial-repo\dummy1

This can be done using TortoiseHg, by applying "Create Repository Here", through right click on folder D:\mercurial-repo\dummy0 and D:\mercurial-repo\dummy1

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Access the mercurial through http://your-server:81/hg/