[nginx] Running Mercurial using Nginx as http server

[Thomas]

Hi Adrian

Thanks for your assistance. I will postpone nginx+mercurial to next
week, I currently have some other stuff to work on. But I will
definitely make it work using your guidelines. Also here is the
documentation page from nginx about mod_swgi:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxNgxWSGIModule

I post it here for later reference.

On Jan 28, 2008 2:30 AM, Adrian Perez <adrianperez at udc.es> wrote:
> El Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:14:55 -0800
> Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> escribió:
>
> >
> > 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'd recommend not using CGI.   There are other ways to deploy
> > Mercurial (as a quick Google search will tell you).
>
> I would go for mod_wsgi. There is a wiki page which show how to set-up
> Apache (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/mod_wsgi), and
> I has been able of setting up a test repository served with Nginx using
> Manlio Perillo's mod_wsgi for Nginx.
>
> First, do some version control with Mercurial:
>
>   $ mkdir /tmp/hg-test && cd /tmp/hg-test && hg-init
>   $ echo 'Hello world' > readme.txt
>   $ hg add readme.txt && hg ci -m'Test commit'
>
> Cast some magic words in the Nginx configuration file:
>
>   include wsgi_vars
>   location / {
>     wsgi_pass /tmp/hg-test.wsgi;
>   }
>
> Create /tmp/hg-test.wsgi with the following contents:
>
>   from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir
>   from mercurial.hgweb.request import wsgiapplication
>   application = wsgiapplication(lambda:hgwebdir("/tmp/hgwebdir.config"))
>
> Finally, create /tmp/hgwebdir.config, contents should look like the
> following:
>
>   [web]
>   style = gitweb
>   [collections]
>   /tmp = /tmp
>
> (Re)Start Nginx and point your browser to the webserver... hgweb should
> appear in front of you :D
>
> Of course, you should adjust paths to your particular setup, I
> used /tmp for testing, but it is *not* a safe setting!
>
> Regards,
>
> -Adrian
>
>
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