How do I get Mercurial's hgwebdir working on Windows?

Question

These are the steps I took:

• install apache 2.2.x
• install TortoiseHg 0.7
• copy hgwebdir.cgi, hgweb.config to cgi-bin
• edit hgweb.config

Answer 1

First thing: don't use TortoiseHg for this. Use the Mercurial installer instead.

(TortoiseHg tries to be as independent of your Python installation as possible, and for reasons unclear to this Python-newbie, things Don't Work. Something about py2exe.)

Otherwise, just follow the steps in the HgWebDirStepByStep. I did have to install pywintypes, but YMMV. Lastly, the unzip utility mentioned on that page may do strange things with file permissions: I had to add read permissions to Templates directory and its files/subdirectories.

As an aside, if you're wondering how to set the style, add this to hgweb.config:

[web]
style = foo