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I know it is not possible to create Mercurial repositories remotely using HTTP(S), for instance: $ hg init https://host.org/repos/project or $ hg clone /path/to/local/project https://host.org/repos/project But, what's the reason? Security issues? No need for it? Simply because nobody has implemented it yet? Rationale for this question: In my company we share most resources via HTTPS, i.e. access permissions are managed by Apache only and regular users cannot login via SSH on the server. That's just perfect as long as repositories need to be served only (for that purpose we are happy with

I've configured hgweb.cgi behind iis7 on windows server 2008. I can pull the repository just fine. However whenever I push I get a 502 bad gateway. I've found a posting which seems to indicate this is a problem with the mercurial config on the server. mercurial doesnt seem to be picking up an http proxy (fiddler) from my local machine even if its configured. Questions are: how do I 'fix' the 502 problem? failing that how do I make mercurial use the proxy so I can figure out whats going wrong? how do I adjust the verbosity setting for mercurial 'properly' given that this is running under a

I am trying to get Mercurial to host on IIS 7.5 (Win 7 x64) and keep running into an error I cant seem to fix. I have followed Jeremy Skinners tutorial here: Mercurial on IIS7 Instead of hgwebdir, I use hgweb as I am using Mercurial 1.7.2 I have python installed and working. I set up a IIS application for Mercurial at http://localhost/hg -> in directory c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg I placed the templates directory into c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg I extracted the library.zip file into c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg When I visited the site, I get an error -> File "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg\hgweb.cgi", line 15, in from