I'm changing from using Apache for web serving to Nginx, mainly because my virtual machine is short on memory. This post covers how to host a mercurial repository through Nginx, and follows on from the Apache version at http://drumcoder.co.uk/blog/2010/jun/10/mercurial-repository-apache-fedora-11/. You need the same hgweb.config file in /var/hg/cgi-bin as defined …

Here's some Django code to implement an auth backend using a web service for authentication. This relies on memcached to store the user details, and doesn't need a backend database to store anything.

The code behind LoginSessionObject.login() will perform the web service call, and it returns a security token which …