Hosting Mercurial HG via VisualSVN Server

Question

I have tried to host a Mercurial HG repository using a Scriptalias.

ScriptAlias /hg/ "htdocs/hgwebdir.cgi"

If I go to Chrome it display the contents of the cgi file. In IE it does render however images and links are not displayed. In either case the repository I want to display is not shown.

Has anyone managed to get this working with VisualSVN? Also will this work if I have windows authentication and https?

Answer 1

Here's a alternative setup using mod_wsgi (fast!), combined repository directory, and you can manage Mercurial repository level access from the VisualSVN Server GUI.

Download mod_wsgi.so for Apache 2.2 Win32 and place in "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\bin".

Copy hgwebdir.wsgi from your Mercurial installation (contrib directory) to "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\". It should look something like this:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\library")
from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir
application = hgwebdir('hgweb.config')

Create the config file "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\hgweb.config".

[paths]
/ = c:/Repositories/*

Paste the following in "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\conf\httpd-custom.conf". You should adjust the Auth* values based on the section of httpd.conf.

LoadModule wsgi_module bin/mod_wsgi.so
WSGIScriptAlias /hg "hgwebdir.wsgi"

<Location /hg/>
    AuthName "Mercurial Repositories"
    AuthType VisualSVN
    AuthzVisualSVNAccessFile "C:/Repositories/authz-windows"
    AuthnVisualSVNBasic on
    AuthnVisualSVNIntegrated off
    AuthnVisualSVNUPN Off

    SVNParentPath "C:/Repositories/"

    require valid-user
</Location>

Create a Mercurial repository:

hg init C:\Repositories\hgtest

You should now be able to access /hg through your browser, and manage repository level authorization through the VisualSVN Server tool.

Answer 2

Assuming you have Python 2.6 installed and working, here are the steps that I took.

Obtain "mod_cgi.so" built for Apache 2.2 Win32 and place it in "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\bin".

Paste the following in "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\conf\httpd-custom.conf"

LoadModule cgi_module bin/mod_cgi.so
ScriptAliasMatch ^/hg(.*) "cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi$1"

Create the cgi-bin directory, "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\cgi-bin". And place hgweb.cgi in it. Make sure it looks similar to the following:

#!c:/Python26/python.exe -u

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\library")

import cgitb
cgitb.enable()

from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir
import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi

application = hgwebdir('hgweb.config')
wsgicgi.launch(application)

Create a file called hgweb.config in the cgi-bin directory.

[paths]
/ = c:/HgRepositories/*

Copied "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\templates" to "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\library\templates".

Create "C:\HgRepositories" folder and "hg init c:\HgRepositories\test".

Restart VisualSVN Server, open browser, enjoy your Mercurial repository.

Answer 3

Starting with version 1.6 of Mercurial, the hgwebdir.wsgi script has been unified with the hgweb.wsgi script. Wherever hgwebdir.wsgi is referred to in these directions, you can substitute the hgweb.wsgi script instead.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/modwsgi

Answer 4

You can run hgwebdir behind different authentication and https modules just fine, provided your webserver handles them before the REMOTE_USER variable is handed off to the CGI.

I don't know visualsvn, but your ScriptAlias looks a lot like Apache. Do you need an AddHandler line for .cgi?