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Mercurial repos with Apache on Fedora 11

June 10, 2010

This covers getting a mercurial repository up and running on a fedora 11 box through Apache, using mod_wsgi. This is for use behind a firewall - there is no security on who can push and no requirement for SSL.

Install Software

Install mercurial binaries using the package manager. 

yum install mercurial

Next, create somewhere for the repositories to live, and create a test project

mkdir -p /var/hg/repos
cd /var/hg/repos
mkdir test
cd test
hg init

Finally, we need a a directory to put the server config in

cd /var/hg
mkdir cgi-bin
cd cgi-bin

hgweb.config

This file lives in /var/hg/cgi-bin and is referenced from the wsgi file below.

[web]
style = coal
push_ssl = false
allow_push = *

[paths]
/ = /var/hg/repos/**

hgwebdir.wsgi

This file also lives in /var/hg/cgi-bin and is referred to from the apache config

from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir

application = hgwebdir('/var/hg/cgi-bin/hgweb.config')

Configure Apache

Configure a virtual host for Apache. This should be done in the standard Apache config structure, I created hg.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d.

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName hg.localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/hg/repos
  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/hg-error_log
  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/hg-access_log common

  WSGIScriptAliasMatch ^(.*)$ /var/hg/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.wsgi$1
  <Directory /var/hg/repos>
    Options FollowSymlinks
    DirectoryIndex index.html

    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>

  <Directory /var/hg/cgi-bin>
    Options ExecCGI FollowSymlinks
    AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

References

Tags: apache mercurial hg fedora mod_wsgi wsgi