Note, this might perhaps be best suited on serverfault.com, but since it is about hosting a programmer source code repository, I am not entirely sure. I'm posting here first, trusting that it'll be migrated if necessary.

I'm attempting to host clones of my Mercurial repositories on my own server (I have the main repo somewhere else), and I'm attempting to set up Mercurial under IIS.

I followed the guide here, but I get an error message.

Solved: See bottom of this question for details.

The error message is:

mercurial.error.RepoError: repository /path/to/repo/or/config not found

Here's what I did.

  1. I installed Mercurial 1.5.2
  2. I created c:\inetpub\hg
  3. I downloaded the hg source as per the instructions of the webpage, and copied the hgweb.cgi file into c:\inetpub\hg (note, the webpage says hgwebdir.cgi, but this particular file does not exist, hgweb.cgi does, however, can this be the source of the problem?)

  4. I added a hgweb.config, with the following contents:

    [paths]
repo1 = C:/hg/**
[web]
style = monoblue

  5. I created c:\hg, created a sub-directory test, and created a repository inside it

  6. I installed python 2.6.5, latest 2.6 version from the website (the webpage mentions I need to install the correct version or I'll get a specific error message, since I don't get an error message that looks remotely like the one mentioned, I assume that 2.6.5 is not the problem)
  7. I added a new virtual host hg.vkarlsen.no, pointing it to c:\inetpub\hg
  8. For this host, I added a script mapping under the Handler Mappings section, mapping *.cgi to c:\python26\python.exe -u %s %s as per the instructions on the we
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