this i quick guide on how to install mercurial on hostmonster. it’s made of pieces taken from the net plus some trial and error.
update the path settings
update your .bashrc file
Add or edit this line
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/packages/mercurial
source ~/.bashrc
install mercurial
get mercurial and install
cd ~
mkdir install_files
mkdir packages
mkdir ~/public_html/hg
mkdir ~/public_html/hg/repos
cd ~/packages
http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.6.3.tar.gz
tar zxf mercurial-1.6.3.tar.gz
mv mercurial-1.6.3.tar.gz ~/install_files/
mv mercurial* mercurial
cd mercurial
make local
./hg debuginstall
cp ~/packages/mercurial/hgweb.cgi ~/public_html/hg
chmod 755 ~/public_html/hg/hgweb.cgi
now inside the hg dir create those files :
hgweb.cgi
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example hgweb CGI script, edit as necessary
# See also http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingRepositories
# Path to repo or hgweb config to serve (see 'hg help hgweb')
config = "/full/path/to/your/hgweb.config"
# Uncomment and adjust if Mercurial is not installed system-wide:
import sys; sys.path.insert(, "/full/path/to/your/mercurial")
# Uncomment to send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
#import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb, wsgicgi
application = hgweb(config)
wsgicgi.launch(application)
hgweb.config
[web]
allowpull=true
style=gitweb
baseurl = /hg
[collections]
/full/path/to/your/repos/directory = /full/path/to/your/repos/directory
.htaccess
Options +ExecCGI
RewriteEngine On
# / for root directory; specify a complete path from / for others
RewriteBase /hg
RewriteRule ^$ hgweb.cgi [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) hgweb.cgi/$1 [QSA,L]
initialize the mercurial repository
you need to change REPOSITORY to your repository name
if you want more than one repository, run the command for each of them
~/packages/mercurial/hg init REPOSITORY
create hgrc files for each project
[web]
contact = Gjergj Sheldija
description =Project Description
style = gitweb
allow_push = MYUSERNAME
push_ssl = false
allow_archive = gz zip bz2
there are a couple of things that are non standard here :
first, i used mercurial 1.6.3 and not the last stable version as the client version that comes default with ubuntu is 1.6.3
second i made all the repositories visible by default, to change this, you need to add those lines to the .htaccess file
AuthUserFile /etc/hg-basic-auth
AuthName "Please Log In"
AuthType Basic
and create a password file for the users
you need to change the values of HGUSERNAME and PASSWORD to your wanted user name and password
cd ~
htpasswd -b -c -d ~/etc/hg-basic-auth HGUSERNAME PASSWORD