How to setup Mercurial central repository on shared hosting

Question

I am trying to setup a central repository with shared hosting. I read all the way through this tutorial https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PublishingRepositories to no avail

Answer 1

If the .cgi extension isn't already mapped to the cgi handler in your host's Apache config you either need a ScriptAlias or AddHandler line for your hgwebdir.cgi script. Actually you can get rid of all that unnecessary RewriteCond and RewriteRule stuff if you just do a single ScriptAlias:

ScriptAlias /hg /home/username/central_repository/hgwebdir.cgi

Also the repo has a /home/user/central_repository/projectname/.hg directory, right? Putting the contents of the .hg directly into projectname would be wrong.

Lastly, try visiting it with your browser, not using clone. What do you see at http://ggap.sf.net/hg/ ? What is in the apache access and error logs? Hopefully you have access to the error log because that always has the best output for debugging this stuff.