[nginx] Running Mercurial using Nginx as http server

[Cliff Wells]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:27 +0100, Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having some troubles getting Mercurial (the distributed Version
> Control System) to work with nginx. It uses a cgi script (hgweb.cgi)
> to launch mercurial which is a python program.
> 
> I have set up the cgi support in nginx using this documentation page:
> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxSimpleCGI
> 
> This setup with simple scripts works fine.

This information is mostly for Perl scripts.

> Now if I want to move to using Mercurial, when I call the cgi script
> that triggers mercurial, I get the following Python error in my web
> browser:
> By the way seeing this error message means that the cgi script is
> being processed, so cgi does work. It's the cgi->python that goes
> wrong.

I'd recommend not using CGI.   There are other ways to deploy Mercurial
(as a quick Google search will tell you).

http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/12/27/mercurial-fastcgi-module
http://bewest.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/mercurial-under-fastcgi-on-lighttpd/
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2005-August/003640.html


Regards,
Cliff